Vintage Watches

The story of Enicar Watches, Manufacture d'Horlogerie Enicar SA began in 1914, with the watchmaker Ariste Racine accountable for the foundation of the watch manufacturing facility in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Enicar business aim was the production of lever watches with a wide palette of movements ranging from 4 to 17 lignes. But Racine didn't remain long in the Jura uplands; by the mid-1920S the company had its head office in Lengnau. Here Racine specialised in sports watches under his trademark, AR, framed in a pentagon.
Completed watch movements without cases were also exported to the New World. In around 1962, Enicar took up the production of its own automatic movements. Calibers in the 112X (11½") and 114X (11½") series were called "Rubirotor". The "Sherpa" name given to hard-wearing sports watches has a more precise connotation. In 1956, participants of a Swiss Himalayan expedition relied on Enicar Watches, and their expectations were entirely fulfilled. Since then the Enicar Watches collection listed such models as the "Sherpa Time", "Sherpa Ultradive", "Sherpa Star", "Sherpa Jet" and "Sherpa" chronographs in various executions.