1950s Enicar Ultrasonic Automatic

Why This Watch Matters This Enicar offers a great everyday wear look with a textured white dial while retaining those "turtle" style lugs that collectors love from the brand. The Full Story Ariste Racine founded Enicar, by reversing the spelling of his last name, in Switzerland in 1914. Enicar operated through the golden age, at least in the mind of a vintage collector, of swiss watchmaking but went through financial troubles in the 1970s due to the Quartz Revolution, ultimately going out of business in 1987. The brand was purchased and revived by another company and is still around today, but it's not the same Enicar S.A. that was started by Ariste. The vintage brand's most famous line of watches is the Sherpa series, which put the company on the map. The series represented the pinnacle of the firm's popularity, with numerous well-known models, including a chronograph (Sherpa Graph), a dive watch (Sherpa Dive), and a GMT (Sherpa Jet) as well as a few others. Found on many of the vario