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Enicar Book, brand new and smoking hot

Vandervenus 31 March 2019

Sale!

€75.00 €65.00

A book about a forgotten Swiss watch brand that combines photography, storytelling, history, graphic design and cool ‘n funky watches.

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40 in stock (can be backordered)

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Description

One copy of the book. The book is written in English, 25 x 25 cm hardcover, 280 pages of brand history, interviews, new old watch stories, catalogs and brochures and much, much more.

 

Additional information

Weight 1.5 kg
Dimensions 25 × 25 × 5 cm
This is what the book will contain:

• 250 pages of great photos and stories.

• A newly discovered interview with Enicar founder Ariste Racine from 1954.

• 5 special photographic remakes of Enicar watches with a remarkable story, courtesy of Verse Beeldwaren (www.versebeeldwaren.nl, including the Enicar Kaleidoscope and military models from 1915 and 1944.

• New interviews taken in Biel and Lengnau, photographed by Maarten Coolen (www.maartencoolen.nl).

• The complete story on Enicar and sports: newly found photos and interview with Stirling Moss! Also featuring Jim Clark, Ken Rosewall, Gerhard Mitter, the Swiss gymnastics team, the Tokio Olympic team, iconic cyclist Eddy Merckx, Jacques Anquetil and many more.

• Inside the factory in Lengnau and the many faces of Enicar employees through the ages.

• A professional look at the three best known Enicar calibers.

• Sold worldwide: background stories of how Enicar conquered 90 countries.

• Old advertisements, brochures and catalogs from all over the planet.

• This, and much, much more!

Author: Vandervenus

Advertising, copywriting, Enicar watches, Motörhead music, Italian Gallo movies, two kids, one wife, Eindhoven, Holland.

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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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