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JimJupiter
·Hello everyone,
you may notice that I have a faible for Enicar watches, especially for the chronographs of the Sherpa Graph series. Cause of a lack of information in the past, I build up my own research page enicar101.com to show and classify these watches.
Since not everything is known to these watches, it is not a surprise that new facts appear from time to time. Sadly when Enicar went bancrupt in the 80s, almost all documentation got lost or was dumped. I still have some hope that they one day appear in the basement of a former worker.... 😉 If you have a tip, write me a pm 😁
Appearance is a good hint regarding the topic. While the documents might be destroyed forever, we see more and more old pictures getting digitalized. Especially motorsport and racing events are well documented in images. A great example for your research is the page https://www.motorsportimages.com/ that helped me a lot.. But be warned, its like a black whole that consumes all your time 😁
When I was looking for Jim Clark pics and his connection to Enicar, I came across other, some more some less famous drivers that were wearing a Sherpa Graph on their wrists. What I found out about Jim Clark you can find here: https://enicar101.com/2021/11/19/the-correct-reference-of-jim-clarks-sherpa-graph/
Besides Jim Clark, also Innes Ireland and Stirling Moss are allready known for their link to the company with the Saturn. While I havn't found anything new to Moss (seems like he was just wearing the Enicar at the day he got it and prefered his oversize, black dial monopusher for the rest of its career) it is different with Ireland. He was using the chronograph on several occasion from 1962 to 1965. Like at the following pic, taken at Monza in 1962:
The most famous person connected to Enicar is of course Jim Clark. From 1963 to 1966 he was an official testimonial for the company and was wearing his Sherpa Graph MK1b with the grey-white dial on the race track but also in his private life. Keep in mind that the naming of the references is nothing official from Enicar, but a classification build up by the community for easier identification.
One of my favourites pics shows Clark at what seems to be a family party with his racing collegues Stirling Moss (not in this pic) and Graham Hill:
Number four wasn't really connected to Enicar until these days. I am speaking about US-American driver Phil Hill, who was e.g. driving for Ferrari or Ford on long distance races like the GT40. At the following image we can clearly see what kind of Sherpa Graph he is wearing. Like Clark he decided for a MK1b reference, this time with the black-white reverse Panda dial.
The last driver I want to talk about is one, that allready "named" an Enicar Chronograph. I am speaking about Gerhard Mitter. The following watch is called "Mitter" but to be honest I havnt found any (picture) proof for that.
But I found a picture showing him with,...you guess it, ...a Sherpa Graph. The pic was taken at the 1000km race at the Nürburgring (Green Hell) in 1969. The reference we see here is the last that was build of these Chronograph series, a MK IV. Maybe its time to name the correct watch after him... 😉
Mitter was also contracted by Enicar like his precedessors Clark and Moss and its possible that he owned more than one Enicar watch.
To sum up, I found five known Formula 1 drivers of the sixites with a connection to Enicar and especially the Sperha Graph chronographs.
I tried to give you a short overview here, more pictures and info you will find as allways in my blog:
https://enicar101.com/2021/12/08/1960s-formula-1-drivers-and-the-enicar-sherpa-graph/
If you have more interesting Enicar related pics, documents or info, feel free to add here or write me a short PM. I would be happy to share my knowledge with you.
Nico
you may notice that I have a faible for Enicar watches, especially for the chronographs of the Sherpa Graph series. Cause of a lack of information in the past, I build up my own research page enicar101.com to show and classify these watches.
Since not everything is known to these watches, it is not a surprise that new facts appear from time to time. Sadly when Enicar went bancrupt in the 80s, almost all documentation got lost or was dumped. I still have some hope that they one day appear in the basement of a former worker.... 😉 If you have a tip, write me a pm 😁
Appearance is a good hint regarding the topic. While the documents might be destroyed forever, we see more and more old pictures getting digitalized. Especially motorsport and racing events are well documented in images. A great example for your research is the page https://www.motorsportimages.com/ that helped me a lot.. But be warned, its like a black whole that consumes all your time 😁
When I was looking for Jim Clark pics and his connection to Enicar, I came across other, some more some less famous drivers that were wearing a Sherpa Graph on their wrists. What I found out about Jim Clark you can find here: https://enicar101.com/2021/11/19/the-correct-reference-of-jim-clarks-sherpa-graph/
Besides Jim Clark, also Innes Ireland and Stirling Moss are allready known for their link to the company with the Saturn. While I havn't found anything new to Moss (seems like he was just wearing the Enicar at the day he got it and prefered his oversize, black dial monopusher for the rest of its career) it is different with Ireland. He was using the chronograph on several occasion from 1962 to 1965. Like at the following pic, taken at Monza in 1962:
The most famous person connected to Enicar is of course Jim Clark. From 1963 to 1966 he was an official testimonial for the company and was wearing his Sherpa Graph MK1b with the grey-white dial on the race track but also in his private life. Keep in mind that the naming of the references is nothing official from Enicar, but a classification build up by the community for easier identification.
One of my favourites pics shows Clark at what seems to be a family party with his racing collegues Stirling Moss (not in this pic) and Graham Hill:
Number four wasn't really connected to Enicar until these days. I am speaking about US-American driver Phil Hill, who was e.g. driving for Ferrari or Ford on long distance races like the GT40. At the following image we can clearly see what kind of Sherpa Graph he is wearing. Like Clark he decided for a MK1b reference, this time with the black-white reverse Panda dial.
The last driver I want to talk about is one, that allready "named" an Enicar Chronograph. I am speaking about Gerhard Mitter. The following watch is called "Mitter" but to be honest I havnt found any (picture) proof for that.
But I found a picture showing him with,...you guess it, ...a Sherpa Graph. The pic was taken at the 1000km race at the Nürburgring (Green Hell) in 1969. The reference we see here is the last that was build of these Chronograph series, a MK IV. Maybe its time to name the correct watch after him... 😉
Mitter was also contracted by Enicar like his precedessors Clark and Moss and its possible that he owned more than one Enicar watch.
To sum up, I found five known Formula 1 drivers of the sixites with a connection to Enicar and especially the Sperha Graph chronographs.
I tried to give you a short overview here, more pictures and info you will find as allways in my blog:
https://enicar101.com/2021/12/08/1960s-formula-1-drivers-and-the-enicar-sherpa-graph/
If you have more interesting Enicar related pics, documents or info, feel free to add here or write me a short PM. I would be happy to share my knowledge with you.
Nico
