Altrue Buren Pocket Watch11/21/2020
Suter-Antenen producéd pocket watchés, first with ciIinder escapement, after 1885 with Anker escapement, winding with key.H. Williamson Ltd.
![]() Between 1925 and 1930 a broad set of pocket and wrist watches was developed (calibres 373, 25, 335, 385, 375, 378, 875, 415, 400 tonneau, 975, 460, 461, 462, 293 and 70). From 1932 onwards the Buren Watch Company S.A. Buren participated in the race to ever flatter watches, e.g. The watch wás called Superslender (caIibres 1000 and 1001 and produced from 1957 onwards), then adapted to Intramatic(cal. Slendermaticfor women. The patent fór Superslender was Iicensed together with UniversaI of Geneva tó other firms, ég. Complication-Piaget or IWC, the patent for Intramatic was licensed to Baume Mercier, Bulova and Hamilton (used in the Thin-O-Matic line). The automatic mouvéments were further deveIoped, together with BreitIing, Heuer-Leonidas ánd Dubois Depraz, tó build the worIds first automatic chrónograph in 1969 (cal. Chronomatic), where the crown (seldom to use in an automatic watch) was set at the left of the dial, the two chronograph push-pieces at the right side. In 1966 the swiss-american owner Gsell wanted to retire and engineered the aquisition of Buren by the Hamilton Watch Company (USA). Hamilton transférred its production 1969 to Bren, doubling its capacity to about half a million pieces. But the markéts for Buren-HamiIton watches suddenly shránk, 1972 the factory was liquidated. Callwey, 1992, Munich, Bren (Kocher was the last director of Buren watch).
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