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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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Coming up: The handsome cousins of the Sherpa Graph

Coming up: The handsome cousins of the Sherpa Graph

The watch world

The Sherpa Graph is arguably the pinnacle of the Sherpa line. But it is hardly the only handsome looking Valjoux 72 powered three register chronograph ever produced. In fact, Enicar…

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Birth of the Sherpa: the 1956 Mount Everest and Lhotse expedition

Birth of the Sherpa: the 1956 Mount Everest and Lhotse expedition

Brand stories

Of all watches Enicar has produced in the past, the Sherpa model line is the most popular with collectors. In the fifties and sixties, ‘Sherpa’ was a sign of top…

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Meet the collectors, part 2

Meet the collectors, part 2

Brand stories, The watch world

  In my last post, I presented four of the biggest Enicar collectors around. In this episode of the nicest distraction from serious work, I give you another four Enicar…

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Meet the collectors, part 1

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…

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Coming up: meet the collectors!

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…

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Print advertising through the ages (updated July 3)

Print advertising through the ages (updated July 3)

Brand stories

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…

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Watch Value Barometer #2

Watch Value Barometer #2

Market and collector value

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…

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The book was sent to 43 countries so far

map of the world with countries the Enicar book was shipped

Making the Enicar Book

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Interview on The Cloudknitters / Radio Centraal

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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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