RARE COLLECTION ~ AUTHENTIC VINTAGE Cortébert MILITARY WRISTWATCH (SOLD)

BRAND/JENAMA: AUTHENTIC VINTAGE Cortébert GENTS MILITARY WRISTWATCH

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1940's

MODEL: MILITARY

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACRYLIC

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: HIGH GRADE CORTEBERT 15 JEWELS MANUAL WINDING MOVEMENT CAL.688

DIAL COLOR: MILITARY BLACK

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: MILITARY

HANDS/JARUM: GOLD TONE HANDS

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: WHITE ARABIC MILITARY MARKERS

CASING : SOLID STAINLESS STEEL/KELULI SEPENUHNYA

LUGS: 18mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 36mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 44mm LUG TO LUG

BEZEL: -

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: -

CROWN: ORIGINAL CROWN

STRAP/TALI: GENUINE BLACK LEATHER BAND

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5" FULL LENGHT

DISCONTINUED MODEL... RAREST!

EXCELLENT CONDITION, KEEPING GOODTIME AND RECENTLY SERVICED

PRICE/HARGA: RM850 (SOLD TO TN ZULKIFLI FROM MANTAU, NS)

BRIEF HISTORY OF Cortébert WATCHES

Cortébert has a very poorly documented history. The brand name is currently owned by Italian watch manufacturer Perseo, and production under the Cortébert brand name has stopped in the mid-1970s. Cortébert used to be one of the highest regarded premium watch brands, manufacturing their own movements, supplying movements to other brands such as Rolex and introducing the jump-hour arrangement. When the quartz crisi hit the industry in the '70s, the majority of prestige brands ceased production including Cortébert. Others have already been resurrected (Baume et Mercier admits, while most companies like to pretend their production was continuous) and today Cortébert is the only remaining brand that has potential to be restored to its historic status.

Cortébert Digital Jump Hour

Abraham-Louis Juillard opened his small watchmaking store inCortébert village in Switzerland in 1790. This date is commonly used as the date of founding although the Cortébert brand name was only registered in 1855 using the bottony cross as a logo.

Cortébert Turkish Railroad watch

Cortébert went on to being one of the most desirable premium watchmakers, appreciated for their extensive range of own movements.

In the 1930s the company started distributing their Italian railroad watches through the Perseo brand, as the facist Italy was rejective of foreign brand names.

By 1944 Cortébert had a lineup consisting of 20 different calibers and a range of special railway watches that became synonymous with the marque.

In the early 1970s Cortébert mysteriously blended into the Perseo brand name, not producing Cortébert watches anymore.

Today the brand is owned by Perseo, while Perseo is owned by a very small family business the Fernus Company. They still sell watches under the Perseo name but these are merely logo-printed promo watches with ETA, Valjoux or Venus movements