Universal Geneve Documentation

Dre · Sep 11, 2020

Hi OF,

Finally got a bit of a free time to get back into watches, thought I’d share some photos of these nice catalogs below from my collection. Please post the catalogs, brochures, or any kind of advertising materials that you have here.

I wish I had access to these stuff when I first started collecting UG! Hopefully this will helps some people!

Best

Andre

IMO the most desirable Accurate Time Plus catalog from The Henry Stern Watch Agency

Interesting Albert Burger’s

My fave

timjohn · Sep 11, 2020

Not Universal procuced, but nice to have anyway...

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FREDMAYCOIN · Sep 11, 2020

Dre
Hi OF,

Finally got a bit of a free time to get back into watches, thought I’d share some photos of these nice catalogs below from my collection. Please post the catalogs, brochures, or any kind of advertising materials that you have here.

I wish I had access to these stuff when I first started collecting UG! Hopefully this will helps some people!

Best

Andre

IMO the most desirable Accurate Time Plus catalog from The Henry Stern Watch Agency

Interesting Albert Burger’s

My fave

Wow

Larry S · Sep 11, 2020

Thanks for the most excellent addition to an already useful sticky.

morningtundra · Sep 11, 2020

Just love this stuff 😀 Thanks for sharing.

Just curious, but how did the Film Compax work? What does the 16mm and 32mm scale measure? Celluloid Frames?

yala · Sep 12, 2020

That is awesome. Many thanks for sharing!!

Mark020 · Nov 9, 2021

This very nice catalogue sold for the princely sum of USD 1.115: https://www.ebay.com/itm/165154169502?hash=item2673f4a29e:g:yqUAAOSwoBphesSm

jumpingsecond · Nov 9, 2021

Great resource. Here's a 30s Brochure:

CaptainWinsor · Nov 9, 2021

jumpingsecond
Great resource. Here's a 30s Brochure:

really cool

cineaste · Nov 9, 2021

Film Compax $95, how much is that in today's money, $1000? I wish modern quality watches were that cheap!

Mark020 · Nov 20, 2021

Another nice catalogue

Mark020 · Nov 21, 2021

Most intruiging perhaps (and quite logical but still I was at first surprised) is the fact that a pocket chrono costs as much a wristwatch chrono

MarktheTime · Nov 21, 2021

Mark020
Most intruiging perhaps (and quite logical but still I was at first surprised) is the fact that a pocket chrono costs as much a wristwatch chrono

Perhaps even more interesting is that what looks like that same pocket chrono reference (can’t be certain of whether gold or steel, etc) sold this past week at Christie’s Online. The result - even with auction fees, etc. - was a bit underwhelming, in my view, for such a gorgeous piece….

Mark020 · Nov 21, 2021

Very shallow pool of collectors but yes: a steal. Also annoying that they did not mention serial and reference not show a picture of them.

Mark020 · Nov 22, 2021

For posteriority large pics. Link: https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/...d-chonograph-openface-pocket-watch-353/134139
Dial is not very high quality printed IMHO

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WhereMadnessLies · Nov 23, 2021

Not mine, but was sold on eBay a while ago. I'm guessing its from around 1970 due to the mixture of round and fat "U" logos. Also note that the older "pointy U" logo is still in use on the buckles.