L'agrafe by Omega (Staples)

This Sunday of 1995, I rose rather early to return to me to the weekly secondhand trade of  Villefranche sur Mer. Indeed,la previous week one of the second-hand dealers let me know that it had a considerable batch of watches and that it would bring them the week end according to, i.e. today.

I do not stroll, and slips by immediately to his stand around of which there are already customers ! On a black velour, were a hundred watch piled up ones on the others. There apparently, the fabrics was used as bag and was posed on the stand without precaution any...

Only a person is interested in the watches and its hand turns over the cases of a fast epic to identify a possible known brand.

Fishing is good and almost immediately I find an automatic Zenith, an Omega caliber 30 and another with tuning fork, not without an aggravated glance of my competitor which did not still find anything of convincing good!

Reseach still continues during ten minutes, and now it 's the face of my adversary which is illuminated! I quickly made identify rectangular Jaeger-Lecoultre with black dial (railroad) and a central second (white enamelled hands), a pure wonder passed to me under the nose! I dream some still sometimes today...

All the watches were looked at several times, and whereas I was going to give up, my eye is attracted by the object which you have in photograph above. A small watch which one fixes by means of a clip which is maintained folded back by a spring. The watch can thus be fixed on the edge of a pocket. Only the staples (or clip) is visible outside, the watch being in the pocket. An original watch which I quickly look at before going to pay my purchases.

L'Agrafe

This Agrafe watch was created in 1929, here a publicity going back to 1933 found on the Omega site

The movement used is the caliber 26,5

With very good state of conservation, its correct operation, this beautiful small watch is in good place in my collection.

The dial is enamelled and thus inalterable, and the box is in nickel-chromium.

Regularly, it is it which gives me the hour on my bedside table. Its precision is less than twenty seconds per day, it is perhaps possible to refine the adjustment, but I never tested.