Ok, what do we think of the theory courtesy of
@bgrisso that HPC on UG dials could actually stand for Henrique Pfeffer Caracas?
For the record, some initial discussion took place here
https://omegaforums.net/threads/post-your-universal-geneves.40710/page-65#post-1382609
Whilst it would explain a number of anomalies e.g. HPC watches are not chronometers, I have a couple of reservations:
- Why would some dials be marked Henrique Pfeffer Caracas and others as HPC? As
@bgrisso pointed out, why would a retailer not wish to use their full name?
- The only UG advert or literature I've seen that features an HPC dial is on page 224 of Sala and the text is French. Would we expect a UG advert to feature a retailer signed dial? If so, would we expect it to be in Spanish rather than French given that Spanish is spoken in Venezuela?
It would be very helpful to understand why Sala thought that HPC stood for High Precision Chronometre. Does anyone know him to ask?
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