Rolex et l’Everest 1933, long…

*Philip* · 2008-01-11T11:16:00+00:00

Allez on se force un peu à lire, [xxxxxxx Edit Calmos : merci de ne pas en remettre une couche xxxxxxxx]Westland G-ACAZ, G-ACBR and 4 Rolex Oysters.Dear watchfriends, to put back things in perspective, Mercedez Gleitze swam the Channel in 1927, Rolex had launched the Rolex Prince in 1928 and on mai 16 1933 Wilsdorf had the Perpetuel movement patended. The Perpetual movement was the result of Emil Borer 's (Rolex master watchmaker) hard work on an original idea from Abraham Louis Perrelet who actually invented the automatic movement in its primitive form in 1770 (was it him).In1933 Edmund Hillary, John Hunt and Tenzing Norgay were still kids... and the first flight over the Everest was about to take place.* At the time the most refined airplane technology was used to create the Westland PV3 and the Westland PV6 aircrafts that were equiped with the best engine available - the 525hp Supercharged Bristol Pegasus. Yet with the Everest, as with the moon 36 years later, there was one great unknown for wich no one was able to cater : no one knew if, on the night, so to speak, some factor unforseen and unsuspected might not precipitate disaster.The 1933 "Houston-Mount Everest" expedition, financed by Lady Houston the "protagonist of aviation", was aimed to put 2 Westland biplanes (specially built prototypes) some 6 miles up into the air above the Himalaya. The biggest questionmarks existed at the time regarding the behaviour of downdraughts and the upcurrents…

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12 janvier 2008 à 5h23 #420000330073

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c’était plus cher…

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