Tavannes Watch Serial Numbers
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Directed by D.A. With Barbara Barrie, Charles Braswell, Susan Browning, George Coe. Stephen Sondheim's musical 'Company' opened on Broadway in the Spring of 1970, and tradition dictates that the cast recording is done on the first Sunday after opening night. Pennebaker, the now-legendary documentarian, filmed the production of the original cast recording, the back and forth. 'Company' Original Broadway Cast – Company - A Musical Comedy Label: Sony Classical – SK 65283, Legacy – SK 65283, Columbia – SK 65283, Columbia Broadway Masterworks – SK 65283. In honor of the original Broadway opening of A Chorus Line July 25, 1975, view a collection of rare photos of the original cast rehearsing and performing a Broadway game-changer. Company is a 1970 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth.The original production was nominated for a record-setting fourteen Tony Awards and won six. Originally titled Threes, its plot revolves around Robert (a single man unable to commit fully to a steady relationship, let alone marriage), the five married couples who are his best friends, and his. Company original broadway cast rare.
Great thread!I could not agree more, Cymas are usually great watches at a nice price. Their movements could be as good as JLC's ones, with nice construction and no wire spring - not true of all Cymas movements.I like their dials as well, which are most often simple and elegant. The only thing I like less is the use of rodhium plated cases, which usually do not get old very nicely.Here are some of my Cymas:9k solid gold, with a really nice movement - great finish, which I could not capture in the pic.Black gilted dial - sorry again for the not perfect pic.A simple Cyma with a classic movement.A nice - but small - 9k solid gold Cyma, with typical Cymas hands.
I recently had a query on dating these movements so have posted the answer here so I'll not have to do it again.The serial number on these movements are under the dial as show to the right. My dating is based on a reasonable number of watches, listed below, in hallmarked silver or gold movements. The sample is heavily biased to watches retailed by J.W. Benson, largely because other retailers frequently used Swiss hallmarked silver cases which do not carry a date mark. Benson appear to have switched from Revue to Tavannes in about 1932 the database is only good for the 1930s.
It must be remembered that a movement might not go straight into a case which itself may have been on the shelf for a while so there will be some overlap, also the hallmarking years of the various assay houses are not in line with each other or the with calendar but the difference is small and the date is likely to be accurate to plus or minus a year. (updated Feb 2017)
Serial | Date | |
4,322,549 | 1908 | |
12,487,883 | 1919 | |
14,708,666 | 1919 | |
13,079,475 | 1921 | |
14,262,246 | 1924 | |
15,485,579 | 1926? | |
15,485,952 | 1926? | |
15,939,146 | 1926 | |
17,482,498 | 1929? | |
16,624,975 | 1930? | |
17,865,828 | 1932 | |
17,886,973 | 1932 | |
17,888,724 | 1932 | |
17,888,811 | 1931 | |
17,889,975 | 1932 | |
17,899,152 | 1931 | |
17,899,219 | 1932 | |
17,889,918 | 1932 | |
17,902,501 | 1932 | |
17,903,525 | 1932 | |
17,903,625 | 1932 | |
17,908,930 | 1932 | |
17,909,034 | 1932 | |
17,909,035 | 1932 | |
17,944,833 | 1933 | |
17,944,871 | 1933 | |
17,966,044 | 1933 | |
17,970,131 | 1933 | |
18,045,354 | 1935 | |
18,045,567 | 1935 | |
18,050,727 | 1935 | |
18,052,802 | 1936 | |
18,055,283 | 1936 | |
18,055,497 | 1936 | |
18,055,498 | 1936 | |
18,055,544 | 1936 | |
18,066,750 | 1935 | |
18,070,392 | 1936 | |
18,076,649 | 1936 | |
18,090,883 | 1936 | |
18,112,605 | 1937 | |
18,112,379 | 1936 | |
18,113,219 | 1937 | |
18,141,556 | 1937 | |
18,146,434 | 1937 | |
18,146,664 | 1938 | |
18,199,372 | 1937 | |
18,240,750 | 1938 | |
18,245,978 | 1938 | |
18,246,001 | 1938 | |
18,252,273 | 1940 | Benson stock? |
18,253,220 | 1939 | |
18,256,774 | 1938 | |
18,265,158 | 1938 | |
18,268,000 | 1940 | |
18,276,566 | 1947? |