RARE COLLECTION ~ AUTHENTIC VINTAGE SANDOZ SUBMARINER AQUAMASTER GENTS DIVER WATCH

BRAND/JENAMA: SANDOZ

MADE IN/BUATAN: ASSEMBLED IN HONG KONG -SWISS COMPONENTS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1980's

MODEL: SUBMARINER AQUAMASTER

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: MINERAL CRYSTAL

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: SANDOZ 25 JEWELS AUTOMATIC WINDING MOVEMENT ETA SA CAL 2824-2 (HI-BEAT 28,800 bph)

DIAL COLOR: BLACK GILT

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: DIVERS

HANDS/JARUM: LUMINOUS GOLD TONE MERCEDES HANDS

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: LUMINOUS DOT

CASING : STAINLESS STEEL/KELULI SEPENUHNYA

LUGS: 20mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 41mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 42mm LUG TO LUG WITH CLAW LUGS

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: SANDOZ SWISS ETA MOVEMET, 25 JEWELS, ALL STAINLESS STEEL, 100M

CROWN: SS/ KELULI

STRAP/TALI: BORIGINAL SS/GOLD PRESIDENT BRACELET

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8"

EXCELLENT CONDITION, WORKING, KEEPING TIME, DISCONTINUED MODEL

PRICE/HARGA: RM950.00 (NEGOTIABLE/BOLEH RUNDING)

Brief History of Sandoz Wristwatches

Henri Frédéric Sandoz (sometimes Frédéric Henri Sandoz), born in 1851,was a self-made man of Le Locle who in the 1870s founded Henri Sandoz & Cie., later producing complicated watches under the name of Cyma. In 1890, in partnership with two families named Schwob, Sandoz established a watch-making firm at Malleray, near Tavannes, in the French-speaking Bernese Jura of Switzerland. Their new business was known as Tavannes Watch Co. By the time of the death of Sandoz on 18 March 1913, many watches were made under the name of Henri Sandoz & Fils. The enterprise occupied a 'model factory' employing one thousand workers and producing 2,500 watches a day. Sandoz was reported to have a paternalistic policy towards his workforce, exercising a fierce social control.

Other names used by the Tavannes company at various times include Tavannes-Cyma, Bijou Watch Co., Tacy Watch Co., and Lisca. After the death of Sandoz, the company he founded went on growing. By 1938, it was manufacturing four thousand items a day.

Since 1971 the Sandoz brand name has been split into four main areas of production, due to its licences being leased or sold. This has led to four separate brands, Sandoz Singapore, Sandoz Hong Kong, Sandoz Swiss, and Sandoz Spain (Munreco). All of these produce watches under the Sandoz name, but each production company has its own line of products. Sandoz Swiss manufactures high quality watches, while Sandoz Hong Kong and Sandoz Singapore manufacture cheaper watches of lower quality. Sandoz Hong Kong products are assembled in Hong Kongusing Swiss movements from ETA SA