Arlea,anyone Heard Of Them?

Hi GM,

If you select any four, five or six letters from the alphabet and jumble them you'll come up with the name of one of these type of watch (it seems).

Felsa was an ebauche manufacturer from the 30s to about 1970 and thousands of their "engines" were cased by various watch "assemblers" in the 40s, 50s and 60s. It appears that Arlea was one of these using a Felsa movement. For a nice look at an Arlea, scroll down here

http://watchrepairandrestoration.blogspot.com.au/2009_10_01_archive.html

Felsa were also the first company to design the first truly bi-directional automatic watch movement (called their BIDYNATOR).

Many of the watches like Arlea were of good quality but the brands seemed to come and go overnight in some cases, but Felsa was also used in some high end watches like Breitling for example.

Nevertheless, they are an interesting item and can provide good experience for the watch tinkerer.

Get that camera out again and lets see some pics.

Cheers

Jim

let no juvenile provocation go unanswered

I see you've got the big model 😁