There is a saying goes, what kind of bird who care, but no points are equal’d wear a watch, also seen on behalf of the so-called natural taste and style. However, the different occupations, different classes of people wearing some of the watch is not too different approach it? Sometimes I think: diver wearing a diving watch, track athletes wear a chronograph, lady wearing diamond watch, the boss wearing a gold watch, military wearing military watches, pilots wearing flight watches, navigators wearing sailing watches, astronomers wearing moon phase watches or astronomical watches seems natural that, but some occupations, such as a doctor wearing what watch? Recently saw a Rolex Prince watch for sale in the introduction, is also known as the Doctor’s Watch. medical research has always been our condition, we’d rarely paid attention to what the doctors are wearing watches? doctors really wearing the so-called Doctor’s Watch examples about much, but the history of’d doctors watch fans deserve a closer look.
Watch the dictionary says: doctor’s watch refers to the disk surface, in addition to hours of hand-face plate, the other side there is a second hand disc is separated (in other words, the surface design for the Dual Dial), can easily measure the pulse of health care workers watch . It was also designed some of the central seconds, with a carefully marked scale effect of large area disk has the same watch is also known as doctors watch. However, if this definition, a lot of these second hand modern watch shows almost all can be called a watch list of the doctors.
Early development in the watch timer, when the pocket watch with second hand is quite rare, and almost all kind of watch and Marine personnel in medical wear, but no matter when in the 19th century or the early watch after the early 20th century , Doctor’s Watch is clearly not there be a special nickname. Doctor’s Watch is believed to have been the end of the 1920s, Rolex, and Gruen co-designed by Hermann Aegler rectangular movement, respectively, launched their own Prince and Techni-Quadron Series watch after paragraph, and eventually become a really special type of watch models name.
We should be more familiar with Rolex, so let’s talk about the less known for the people of Gruen Watch Company. Gruen was first used by German Dietrich Gruen (1847-1911) and his son Fred in 1894 founded the state of Ohio, Columbus, in 1921, Gruen Biel in Switzerland set up a big factory called the Precision Factory, so often misunderstood is a Swiss company. Gruen just a few years of its watchmaking history (bankruptcy in 1958), created a lot of popular good watch, including VeriThin , Pentagon pocket watch, Curvex watches and the most famous, came to be known as the Doctor watches the watch Techni-Quadron , has been hailed as the best in American history one of the watch factory.
Gruen introduced in 1929 Techni-Quadron, its most prominent feature is to have a particularly large surface panel of independent second hand, and contemporary watch other shows even second hand, face plate is also not easy to time are small (some small to 2mm). Therefore, in addition to health care workers like to use as calculated by the pulse of the weapon outside, Gruen companies need to accurately count specifically to the second client, such as technicians and engineers to do radio advertising. Gruen history of expert Paul Schliesser noted that, according to a strict definition, apart from Techni-Quadron addition, Gruen other models including the Quadron square watch can not be Doctor’s Watch. Techni-Quadron and other square watch the biggest difference lies in the center of the dial is not in the division crown the head-long horizontal line, but in the top of the place.
Rolex Prince can be said that its founder, Hans Wilsdorf and 30 years in 1920 following the waterproof Oyster for a hit after another attempt, and is a direct appeal of the shape. As mentioned above, Rolex also used Aegler the movement, but in 1928 launched one year earlier Prince watches, the original style is the Prince Classic Ref. 1343, after the launch is the Prince Brandcard Ref. 971, this style is characterized by a rectangular case add the outside appearance of a significant extension of the box (style as Gruen’s Techni-Quadron, French brancard stretcher that is, the meaning in English.) Follow-up section of the watch include Railway Prince Ref. 1527, HS Jumping Hour, Prince Dauphine, Sporting Prince Jumping Hour and other watches. Since the whole environment of the square quickly dissipated heat watch, Prince may be around in about the mid-1940s production. 1939 listing of Prince Super Precision Aerodynamic Ref. 3361 Prince series may be one of the last section of the watch, center, second hand up and down the uneven size of the design shown in the watch body Rolex even in the poor environment, still on the square the shape of the watch to continue to do new attempt, but ultimately lost to the overall market trend. But Prince is not really determine the cut-off time on the market in 1952, there had been a production of Prince.
Except, of course the most representative Rolex Prince and Gruen Techni-Quadron addition, there are about the same time also launched Doctor’s Watch of the watch factory. Such as the United States, another well-known Hamilton’s Seckron Doctor’s Watch, and the Supreme’s Doctor’s Watch, and so numerous, watch fans interested in visits may also wish to explore.
Whether the Rolex Prince or Gruen Techni-Quadron antique watch, now is a valuable commodity, the price is expensive. But I’d found a cost little, can have the benefits of a medical watch method: Epos the Rectangular series (re-stretch it: non-advertising) among the Ref. 3185 Rolex Prince Doctor almost engraved version of the watch, and Ref. 3208 is the Rolex Prince Jump Hour (using the AS 1726 movement) is the perfect replacement, take a look see.
