A famous Army / Military watch from WW2 era: Revue Sport in Good+ condition
and good time accuracy! One of the most collectible military watches ever made
especially for the German Army.
REVUE THOMMEN HISTORY
Revue Thommen is a timepiece
company founded in Switzerland which produces
luxury wristwatches and aircraft equipment.
In 1853 Société d' Horlogerie à
Waldenbourg was founded as a Swiss watch manufacturing company by the
community of Waldenburg, Switzerland. It began to
manufacture wristwatches in order to create work in the Waldenburg
valley whose location at the route Basel-Geneva had become
insignificant due to the newly established train connection Basel - Olten -
Geneva.
In 1859
Gédéon Thommen and Louis Tschopp acquires the company and privately
restructured it. Gédéon Thommen is also the founder and promoter of the
Waldenburgerbahn, a steam train connecting the valley’s villages. Tschopp left
the company, which was renamed Gédéon Thommen’s Uhrenfabriken.
From 1905, the company was
commercially registered as REVUE THOMMEN AG,
a joint-stock company. REVUE had been used earlier as a brand
name of the company’s wrist watches, after they had been marketed as “GT”
watches (GT standing for Gédéon Thommen) before.
In 1916, the first aircraft
chronograph for the Swiss Air Force was created and laid the
foundation for the company’s success as an aircraft instrument supplier.
From 1936 –
1943, the company produced cockpit instrumentation for the Swiss Air Force. REVUE THOMMEN developed and
supplied altimeters, airspeed indicators, vertical speed indicators,
clocks, and the landing gear for the Swiss multifunction
biplane EKW C-35.
From 1939 - 1944, the company
produced commissioned by the 3° REICH German Nazism, resistant watches for
the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine with brand REVUE-SPORT.![revue-sport-10](https://i.postimg.cc/59SZ6JvL/revue-sport-10.jpg)
In 1945
REVUE THOMMEN commercialized its technical capabilities in the aviation sector
by launching a pocket altimeter for alpinists. Derivations like altimeters for
parachutists will follow and are produced well into the Internet age.
Recent history
In 2000 REVUE THOMMEN AG granted a
license to the Swiss company Grovana Ltd. for the manufacturing and marketing
of the REVUE THOMMEN wrist watch brand products, so REVUE THOMMEN AG can focus
on its aircraft instrument business.
After the
wrist watch business was spun off, the company began expanding its mechanical
cockpit instrument business through the introduction of electronic aircraft
equipment, including air data systems and helicopter searchlights.
In 2012 ”GT Thommen Watch AG”,
the joint-venture partnership of Andreas Thommen, Roland Buser and
Christopher Bitterli, bought the intellectual property rights for the
watch business from REVUE THOMMEN AG and began revitalizing the brand in the
Swiss wrist watch business. They appointed Swiss Initiative Limited (SIL)
as sole license holder for the production and worldwide distribution in 2015.
Now being solely an aviation
industry supplier, REVUE THOMMEN was acquired by TRANSAS Group in
2012, a Russian technology company, which handed over its shares to the Russian
private investor Sistema on October 4, 2015.
The decline of demand for mechanical
aircraft instruments in the aviation industry and economical pressure also led
REVUE THOMMEN AG to restructure.
REVUE, the
former brand name of wrist watches, was removed from the company name in order
to clearly identify the company as supplier to the aviation industry. In 2015 it was rebranded as THOMMEN
AIRCRAFT EQUIPMENT AG, and it sold its mechanical aircraft instrument business
to SATHOM, a subsidiary of the French aircraft component MRO Company SATORI
Sarl, in June 2016.
SATHOM stays at the original
location of REVUE THOMMEN and was granted a license to continue the production
and sale of mechanical aircraft instruments under the THOMMEN brand name.
In 2016, THOMMEN AIRCRAFT EQUIPMENT
moved from Waldenburg to a modern location in Muttenz, Switzerland, closer
to Basel, where it focuses on development of electronic aircraft clocks,
air data systems and helicopter searchlights, cabin/emergency flashlights.
ABOUT THIS REVUE SPORT FOR SALE It is a very rare timepiece from 1940 in good+ cosmetic condition. Dial has some spots
hardly visible from the years passed but nothing is important to be mentioned.
Crystal in very good condition and case with light wearings, a very surprising detail for its age!
Radium has removed from the hands and Arabic numerals for security reasons.
A great relic from the past that every collector must have in his collection!
SPECS -Steel case -Measurements: 33mm without the crown (X) 39mm lug to lug and 10mm thickness -Weight: 39gr including strap -Acrylic Glass
-MOVEMENT'S SPECS: Revue (GT) 59. Manual
wind, sub second, option: Breguet hairspring,
Incabloc, 15 jewels, f = 18,000
A/h, power reserve 30h.
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