Meet the collectors, part 1
Brand stories, The watch world
The Enicar community is a small community. Most collectors know each other by linking and liking on the forums and social media. Over the years, I’ve come to…
Coming up: meet the collectors!
Brand stories, The watch world
The Enicar community is a small community. But the enthusiasm for the brand is limitless. Who are these collectors? What drives them? What’s their favorite Enicar model? I’ve asked 8…
Print advertising through the ages (updated July 3)
I’ve been working in advertising for over twenty years. When I started, there were actually some big clients who had their own website! Quite spectacular, because now they could share…
Watch Value Barometer #2
It has been three months since I published the Enicar Watch Value Barometer for the first time on my weblog. It was a modest hit. I got a large number…
Facts, figures and features (updated March 18)
As interest in Enicar grows, the more it becomes clear that there’s a lot we don’t know about the brand. Production volumes, reference numbers, names of executives and designers, it’s…
The rise of the Sherpa Star (updated August 14)
Enicar is the kind of brand that produced numerous models, but only a handful are popular with collectors nowadays. The brand shipped millions of relatively cheap (but very reliable) watches…
Top 5 Enicar trademarks
If your company slogan is “Precision time in space, on the earth and over the seas“, there’s really nothing that can go wrong, is there? Enicar is not only my…
Sherpa Super Dive MkIII: a quartz that never happened?
Recently, I acquired a very nice Enicar Sherpa Super Dive MkIII from the mid seventies. This HUGE dive watch was the final incarnation of the Sherpa Super Dive models. The…
WWII soldier B.T. Jatkowski and his Enicar Sport
Since I started collecting Enicar watches, I’ve always favored the models from the sixties and seventies, particularly the robust Sherpa divers, colorful GMT’s and gorgeous chronographs. But this weblog is…
Rocking the boat: Enicar’s 1957 publicity stunt
Publicity stunts have always been a creative way for brands to get attention. I clearly remember the advertising campaigns of the Italian fashion brand Benetton in the early nineties (you…