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JimJupiter
路Hey guys,
as some of you know, I am a total sucker for Enicar watches. Last year I had the rare opportunity to buy an Enicar Sherpas Chronometer, Ref. 100/76 AnNS. A kind of watch you won't find often, cause Enicar used their own system for accuracy and called it "Supertest". The only other Sherpas Chronometer I know of is the one from @Bill Sohne (https://omegaforums.net/threads/really-uncommon-enicar-automatic-chronometer.61758/) with a bit different dial. Compared to normal Enicar Sherpa and Sherpas there is an engraving of the chronometer movement serial on the caseback. Mine is 3166.
The story of my seller was that he bought the watch 20 years ago from a Swedish old gentleman who said the watch was part of a Swedish arctic mission in the 1950s. Well, nice story, but who knows what is true and whats not without any documents.
This week I found some really interesting documents, stating that Enicar Sherpas Chronometer watches were part of a Swedish-Finnish-Swiss expedition that took part during the international geophysical year in Spitzbergen 1957 to 1958.
Similar interesting was the number that was mentioned in a telegram that was part of the documents I found. It referred to an Enicar Chronometer with the serial 3165, just one number apart from my watch, which is pretty cool and makes it more likely the old Swedish guy was not lying 馃槈
Thats pretty much the story of my watch in short. If you want to read the long version with more info and more pics, have a look at my latest blog post:
Enicar Sherpas Chronometer Ref. 100/76 AaNS at the (cold) edge of the world
as some of you know, I am a total sucker for Enicar watches. Last year I had the rare opportunity to buy an Enicar Sherpas Chronometer, Ref. 100/76 AnNS. A kind of watch you won't find often, cause Enicar used their own system for accuracy and called it "Supertest". The only other Sherpas Chronometer I know of is the one from @Bill Sohne (https://omegaforums.net/threads/really-uncommon-enicar-automatic-chronometer.61758/) with a bit different dial. Compared to normal Enicar Sherpa and Sherpas there is an engraving of the chronometer movement serial on the caseback. Mine is 3166.
The story of my seller was that he bought the watch 20 years ago from a Swedish old gentleman who said the watch was part of a Swedish arctic mission in the 1950s. Well, nice story, but who knows what is true and whats not without any documents.
This week I found some really interesting documents, stating that Enicar Sherpas Chronometer watches were part of a Swedish-Finnish-Swiss expedition that took part during the international geophysical year in Spitzbergen 1957 to 1958.
Similar interesting was the number that was mentioned in a telegram that was part of the documents I found. It referred to an Enicar Chronometer with the serial 3165, just one number apart from my watch, which is pretty cool and makes it more likely the old Swedish guy was not lying 馃槈
Thats pretty much the story of my watch in short. If you want to read the long version with more info and more pics, have a look at my latest blog post:
Enicar Sherpas Chronometer Ref. 100/76 AaNS at the (cold) edge of the world
