Auguste Reymond,
Tramelan, Switzerland
since 1898, click on the right hand side of the
home page for the "normal collection"
The company
ARSA (Auguste Reymond Societe Anonyme) makes Braille and Low Vision watches
and their website is
here
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Auguste Reymond "Ragtime", MSRP EUR 450 Caliber ETA 2824-2 |
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| Front | Dial | Packaging | Back | Case | Display Back | Movement | Super Luminova | Wrist | Wearer's View |
Tramelan is in the Bernese Jura,
in the Watch Valley.
The link open a
nice website dedicated to the
valley where most
Swiss watches are produced
I had followed this brand in each Wrist Watch Annual since 2001, when I was
drawn into the whirl of internet watch communities. I had always liked the brand
because it seemed small, independent and often had "art related watch themes".
The founder Auguste Reymond was obviously interested to create watches for
visually handicapped (I almost count myself in this group with my worsening eye
sight, I am far sighted, but the focal distance seems to move more then the rule
of thumb "1 cm with each year of age") and the blind.
Auguste Reymond was also an early adaptor of the "wrist watch revolution". The
origins for the wrist watch for the general public (excluding those produced by
e.g. Breguet for royalties much earlier) lay in the German jewelry industry that
recognized and acknowledged the trend that watches will be worn on the wrist
rather then in the pocket as one of the first countries. Auguste Reymond was one
of the first Swiss brands to offer this new style of watches. Also ARSA (Auguste
Reymond Societe Anonyme) was offering water resistant watches with shock
protection at a time many companies still believe that these typical "wrist
watch" features were not that important. Auguste Reymond died shortly after
World War II in 1946. The current owner seems to be Mr. Thomas Loosli.
Interesting is also that the A. Reymond manufacture created the watch calibers
that became famous under the name UNITAS. Today ETA is about to change the
caliber names from Unitas 6497 and 6498 to ETA 6497 and ETA 6498 respectively.
These two calibers are powering the majority of hand wind oversized wrist
watches and this caliber is almost a standard today for pocketwatches.