Une plongée de marque RACINE ! Un rapport avec ENICAR ?

The story of the Manufacture d’Horlogerie Enicar S.A. started in 1914, with the watchmaker Ariste Racine responsible for the foundation of the watch factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds. The business objective was the production of lever watches with a wide palette of movements ranging from 4 to 17 lignes. But Racine did not stay long in the Jura uplands; by the mid-twenties the firm had its headquarters in Lengnau. Here Racine specialized in sports watches under his trademark, AR, framed in a pentagon. Finished 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 (11 1/2″‘) and 114x (11 3/4″‘) series were called « Rubirotor ». The « Sherpa » name given to hard-wearing sports watches has a more precise connotation. In 1956, members of a Swiss Himalayan expedition relied on Enicar timepieces, and their expectations were fully met. From then on the Enicar collection included such models as the « Sherpa Time », « Sherpa Ultradive », « Sherpa Star », « Sherpa Jet » and « Sherpa » chronographs in various executions.

Enicar c’est Racine à l’envers :p