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A cool connection between the HePing and Huacheng, the case maker
Regarding my earlier post about the "bird dial" HePing watch: Eric Heise had posted a case back photo of a 1953 Chinese "Huacheng" watch that had a very similar dove design.
That aroused a suspicion that I confirmed with Joel and the group yesterday.
Huacheng was a large case maker that sold watches housing Swiss movements prior to China establishing its own movement building industry. Huacheng was also among the roughly 60 enterprises that were tasked with cooperating to early domestic watches in Shanghai.
That would explain the similarity between the doves, but also raise the possibility--but not certainty--that the artist on both was the same. I say not certainty because there were other watches of that era that had hand painted logos and designs on the dials where the artists hired all produced a very similar but not identical product.
Still, a very cool connection. Thanks, Eric!
That aroused a suspicion that I confirmed with Joel and the group yesterday.
Huacheng was a large case maker that sold watches housing Swiss movements prior to China establishing its own movement building industry. Huacheng was also among the roughly 60 enterprises that were tasked with cooperating to early domestic watches in Shanghai.
That would explain the similarity between the doves, but also raise the possibility--but not certainty--that the artist on both was the same. I say not certainty because there were other watches of that era that had hand painted logos and designs on the dials where the artists hired all produced a very similar but not identical product.
Still, a very cool connection. Thanks, Eric!
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"That stone buddha deserves all the birdshit it gets. I wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind." Ikkyu
"That stone buddha deserves all the birdshit it gets. I wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind." Ikkyu
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