Landeron 13 from the late 30s

billiout · May 22, 2024

Hey guys! I received my new find today and I wanted to share it with the forum. It's a monopusher chronograph produced in the late 1930s with a (rare?) Landeron 13 movement. The brand is "GLORIA GENEVE" and the only information I found online about it is the following:

From Pritchard, it appears that the Gloria/Gloria watch appears associated with Jean-Richard SA, Geneve, listed in 1951. Later Gloria Watch and Jean-Richard became Aquastar. An older company to use Gloria Watch was A Hammerly in La Chaux de Fond ... but the back of the watch is stamped Geneve..

The watch is running and the chronograph function is working fine but it stops occasionally and probably needs to be cleaned and lubricated again. Hopefully, I'll find a good watchmaker at some point willing to service it (my watchmaker is not keen on servicing old Landeron chronographs due to the difficulty of finding parts).

arturo7 · May 22, 2024

Very nice!

X350 XJR · May 22, 2024

Cool piece.

Redondo444 · May 23, 2024

Those old Landerons have a nice charm and the different type of dials used are really cool.
Who cares about a brand 😀

Dan S · May 23, 2024

Great dial.

TexOmega · May 25, 2024

My Landeron 13 from the late 1930's.

Mark020 · May 25, 2024

I like it. Nice catch

billiout · May 25, 2024

TexOmega
My Landeron 13 from the late 1930's.

Beautiful watch! These old chronographs are so cool. It's weird that there are apparently two versions of Landeron 13 where one is a monopusher and the other has two pushers but both have the same name.

zedlebowski · May 25, 2024

Love it! Great acquisition - congrats! I am jealous...

COYI · May 26, 2024

Nice watch and definitely worthy of a service.
My Landeron 47 from 1937 works great after it was serviced

Redondo444 · May 26, 2024

I really like the dial from the op thread @billiout.
Quite unusual with the latin numbering on the hour indices and then the different color shading on the telemetre scale.
Even though parts for these old landeron movements could be an issue to source.
Sometimes I find it quite hard to differentiate on the different Landeron calibers.

Speaking about the dials of the old Landeron movements:

Have this (assume) Landeron 3 but sadly missing some important parts 😀

Then another one with a local watchmaker branding from South Africa :

Here an Eresco with (I assume) Landeron 54 movement:

And then one almost similar to @COYI Leonidas but unbranded:

Canuck · May 26, 2024

My Landeron 48 behind a Bucherer dial. I can’t believe I don’t have a picture of the movement! I’d open it up and photograph the movement, but it is in a ”clamshell” case with a sketchy split stem which could fail with the next manipulation. Circa mid-60s?