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Watch Value Barometer #3

Watch Value Barometer #3

Market and collector value

Now that the end of the year is closing, I like to take a look at the vintage Enicar market. Let’s cut to the chase: the spectacular price development I…

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Holiday season scams?

Holiday season scams?

Market and collector value

  It’s December, so let’s spend loads of money! During holiday season, we seem to be much easier on burning cash than the rest of the year. Myself included. We’ve…

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The Enicar book, an update

The Enicar book, an update

The Enicar Book

  Last september, I went to Biel and Lengau to do research for what my be my most ambitious project to date: the Enicar book. I’ve written several reports about…

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The staying power of the Sherpa Electric

The staying power of the Sherpa Electric

Enicar models

Enicar was a manufacturer of alarm clocks and watches and proud of it. Their in house engineered and build AR movements, like the AR 112X, AR 114x and AR 116x…

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Basel premiere: the 1960 Sherpa line

Basel premiere: the 1960 Sherpa line

Brand stories, Enicar models

My recent trip to Biel and Lengnau left me with countless impressions and a pile of great documents. Arguably the best catch was the bag full of Saturns, the corporate…

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Biel / Lengnau report, week #3

Biel / Lengnau report, week #3

Brand stories, The Enicar Book

My final week in Biel and Lengnau brought me everything I hoped for and more. When I planned this trip roughly a year ago, I aimed for two or three…

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Biel / Lengnau report, week #2

Biel / Lengnau report, week #2

Brand stories, The Enicar Book

The first week in Switzerland I spend most of my days in Biel. In my second week, I visited Lengnau several times and I spoke again with Donato Silvestri, the…

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Biel / Lengnau report, week #1

Biel / Lengnau report, week #1

Brand stories, The Enicar Book

Time flies when you’re in Biel, Switzerland. It’s been one full week already and I must have walked over 30 kilometers. Not that Swiss public transport is not sufficient, on…

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Upcoming: a trip to Lengnau, home of Enicar

Upcoming: a trip to Lengnau, home of Enicar

Brand stories

In a few weeks I will be on a train to Biel. Yes, it’s finally happening. It’s gonna be my first trip to Switzerland and I doubt it will be…

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The handsome cousins of the Sherpa Graph

The handsome cousins of the Sherpa Graph

The watch world

In 2015, the Enicar Sherpa Graph grabbed the attention of many vintage watch enthousiasts. It was covered on Fratellowatches.com and a couple of weeks later, a story about a 15.000 US…

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This weblog and the Enicar book project are NOT financed by www.enicar.com, nor are they affiliated with the Hong Kong company that is currently operating as www.enicar.com. This weblog and the Enicar book are about the Enicar S.A. company, that was located in Lengnau, Switzerland, and my personal experiences as a collector and copywriter.

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About Martijn van der Ven

Born in 1975, my first watch was a Ruhla, my first audio cassette ‘The best of Elvis Presley’ and the first movie I saw in the theater ‘Terminator 2, judgement day’. I am a professional copywriter with 20 years of advertising experience, a father of two, a husband and a Motörheadbanger without hair. If you ever visit Eindhoven, drop by for a beer.

 

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