Enicar Day Date
This is one of four watches that have been gifted to me by a family member. It is an Enicar Day Date that was bought and worn by my wife’s grandfather in the 1970s or 1980s (nobody is sure on that) in Hong Kong.
Being a watch designed for the Asian market, it looks to have been produced during Enicar’s troubled final years prior to being liquidated.
So, besides being a watch containing huge sentimental value it is also a watch of contradictions. Not all is as it seems.
The ‘25’ on the dial, which would appear to indicate the number of jewels, is the first such contradiction.
Upon opening the caseback, instead of finding an Enicar movement you are greeted with an ETA2846-B9 movement. This movement has 17 jewels rather than 25.
Another contradiction is that this movement appears to be from a later period to which the watch was produced and bought.
A replaced movement perhaps? Possibly, but my wife is not sure on that, and unfortunately the original owner is no longer around to tell the story.
So this makes it a watch of little monetary value, but huge sentimental value.
My kind of watch actually. Oh, the stories it could tell..
Before I clicked on the post I thought "late Enicar, made for the Asian market." (The jeweled indices are a dead giveaway in that era.)
Interesting watch, glad that you are keeping it going.
Reminds me of the Orient President