Made by Brazen / Dodane in Besancon, France. This model style dress / Sport has a movement blanks France FE 140.2C Second Central - Calendar-Weekly - date change fast - lever escapement alternations / hour: 21,600 to 17 functional jewels - 11.5 lines - Power reserve (reserve power) 49h.
horns extending the watch case form a middle half-typed Round Square mid-1970.
The dial with calendar indicates the day of the week, date. Devices and daily schedule of class 140A are the same caliber 233 - and 233 69A - 70A of the factory, and thus enjoy the change of date and expedited the release date quickly.
The Index applied to the beveled design replaces dial numbers.
Blanks France, a manufacturer of movements "made in France".
the merger of four of the largest French manufacturers of blanks formed in 1965, the structure Blanks France. The official name is: Roughing France SA, but more often is abbreviated PA.
These companies origins Cupillard Blanks (Villers-le-Lac, Doubs) FEMG (Factory Draft Watch Geneva and Annemasse), JH Jeambrun (located at the entrance from St MaƮche Hippolyte, Doubs) and Draft Technic SA (TE). Sketches on Cupillard, the book by Joseph Flores "Wheel of Perpetual meeting" on page 53, celebrates Cupillard Virgil. His factory, employing 210 employees then, is taken over by his son and brother in law in 1900. The volume of production is 4 million, after the merger 65. This corresponded to about 50% of the total French production of templates. PA produced 14 million movements in 1990, it still achieved more than 8 million in 94 at the close of its four production sites ... too scattered to get some synergy? Boards technical movements France Blanks 140.2 FE: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7