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Up for Sale is
AN ULTRA RARE ITEM !
A RARE GENUINE ANTIQUE
HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE AND SOUGH AFTER
WAR ERA WEST END SOWAR PRIMA WRIST WATCH.RARE BONCLIP MILITARYBAND CENTRE SECONDS SOWAR PRIMA WRIST WATCH.
British Civil Service (India) issue wrist watch manufactured by Longines/West End Watch Co.
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WEST END WATCH CO.
SOWAR
PRIMA
SWISS MADE
WEST END WATCHES WERE ALSO BEING MADE BY LONGINIS
DIAL DIAMETER APP. 25M
THE WATCH STILL KEEPS A GOOD TIME
THE MACHINE HAS THE WEST END LOGO EMBOSSED .
KINDLY SEE THE DETAILED PICTURES FOR FURTHER REFERANCE !
THE MACHINE ALSO IS VERY NEAT N CLEAN
STILL IN GREAT SHAPE AND KEEPING GOOD TIME .
DUE TO THE AGE AND LONG INTERNATIONAL DISTANCES
I'M SELLING IT AS IS WITHOUT ANY GUARANTEE,WARANTEE,REFUND OR RETURNS.
ASK ME QUESTIONS AND I WOULD BE PLEASED TO REPLY.
SINCE I AM SELLING MULTIPLE ITEMS
THE FINAL MAY SLIGHTLY VARY FROM THE PICTURES SHOWN .
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History
The West End Watch Company was created in 1886. The West End,
a district of the centre of London, inspired its name to Mr. Arnold
Charpié who was the Bombay representative of the Alcide Droz & Sons
firm, a watch company established at Saint-Imier (Canton of Bern) in Switzerland.
In 1886, MM. Amstutz and Droz, the owner of Alcide Droz & Sons
firm, began the exploitation of the trademark West End Watch Company in
the Indian market and developed the first waterproof pocket watch ever produced [1] : "L'Impermeable" (nowadays displayed at the International Watchmaking Museum of La Chaux-de-Fonds).
During the First World War, a large force of British and Indian soldiers was sent from Bombay to the Persian Gulf to reach Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). They received some West End Watch Company watches.
In 1917, West End Watch Company changed its name to Société des Montres West End SA and was registered in Geneva. At the same time the sub-brand Sowar was also registered.
In 1934, the Société des Montres West End SA was the first brand to introduce the Incabloc anti-shock system invented by Mr. Braunschweig.[2]
In 1973, after several years of development, the company was finally
sold, for lack of heirs, to his main supplier : "Aubry Brothers Ltd",
established in Noirmont (Jura) to keep open the Bombay West End Watch Company's office.
Since 2000 the workshops and the head office of the company have been moved to Leytron, in Wallis. At the same time, the company was taken over by new shareholders and the management changed.
In 2005 West End Watch Company celebrated its 120th anniversary of uninterrupted presence in Asia with the introduction of its "Silk Road concept". This concept came from the fact that the Silk Road crossed most of the regions where the brand possessed, and still possesses, counters.
Nowadays, West End Watch Company is active in Saudi Arabia, in the United Arab Emirates, in the Himalaya Range (in particular in Tibet, Nepal and in Bhutan) and as well as in western half of China.
2010 A first in the brand's history, West End Watch Company watches
are now exclusively distributed/sold in the USA and Canada by Empire
Brands. EB is a distributor of leading products around the globe.
In 2011, West End Watch Company will celebrate its 125 years of
uninterrupted activity so a commemorative book redrawing the history of
the brand will be published in 2010 in association with the Centre
Jurassien d’Archives et de Recherches Economiques.[3]
The model still manufactured today is Sowar. In Hindustani, Sowar means "warrior" and this name was selected in honor of Sir Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) because it's said that he and his soldiers wore some West End Watch Company watches during the war.
Such a masterpiece in this brilliant shape is NEVER SEEN BEFOR in eBay!
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Bid with Confidence ,
you would not regret it.
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