1950s Enicar Ultrasonic Sherpa Automatic

Why This Watch Matters Even Enicar's simple time-only Sherpa wows with quality and attention to detail. A true connoisseur's vintage brand. The Full Story Found on many of the various Sherpa dials is the word "Ultrasonic." Watch brands began to place selling points of their watches directly on the dial around the mid-20th century. Not the jewel count of the movement or simply "automatic" but words like "Supertest" and "Incabloc" found their way right onto the dial. These were selling points, utilizing the watch dial as an advertising tool in and of itself. "Ultrasonic" in "Enicar-ese" refers to an ultrasonic cleaning during assembly. The brand began using this process in 1953 and saw it as a differentiating element of its manufacturing abilities within the crowded Swiss watch market. Enicar claimed that its process preserved movement oils for longer, bragging that its movements could go three years without servicing. Here we have a simple Enicar compared to the others we see in the vin