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Azur watches, does anyone know anything about them?

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Hi all, I recently bought this 1960’s Azur manual chrono diver with tachymeter. I done some very basic googling but can’t find out anything. Can you help?
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Little bit of info and more pictures here

https://www.retrowatchguy.com/products/ ... hronograph

It's a nice looking watch :thumbup:
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Re: Azur watches, does anyone know anything about them?

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nigelb001 wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2020 2:09 pm Little bit of info and more pictures here

https://www.retrowatchguy.com/products/ ... hronograph

It's a nice looking watch :thumbup:
Err Nigel. :problem:

Looking at the ding on the bezel @ 57 and the 10 o'clock marker with a triangular bit missing; that's the watch Greg bought. :oops:

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10 points for Guy
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Small world isn't it. Nil points for me!
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It’s probably one of multitude of “house” branded watches that abounded in the sixties Greg. You may find the same dial and case with a different name to the dial, and most likely the same movement inside as well. In some instances you may find the same dial in a different case or vice versa; only the name on the dial is probably going to be different...

I have quite a few of them in my collection: watches made by one company, but for sale under several different names. IMO it doesn’t devalue owning such a watch, but it does make it hard finding information on them.

The Landeron chronograph movement was a solid, but mostly unremarkable movement - except in one respect: it launched dozens of different brand names and hundreds of different watch styles onto the market; it was cheap, but it was both reliable and cheaply and easily serviced. They sold by the bucketloads, but the good thing was that everyone had a different case and dial combination to put them in.
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Interestingly, Azur is an old French watch brand (first registered in 1890) that seems to have been revived at a later date. There are registrations for Azur dating to 1909 and 1911 under the manufacturer's name, "Gaston Weil", with the company being "Gold- und Silberschmied, 68 rue de Bondy, Paris, Frankreich" The brand name was later used at 9 Boulevard Saint Denis in the same locality by Myrtil Israel, as a registration of 22 February 1924 shows.

My feeling is that the Azur brand has been a French watch brand for at least most of its working life, probably being actively used on and off over the years. The existence of a relatively modern quartz watch on eBay branded Azur and with the legend, Made in France, on the dial, shows that the brand was in use not that long ago.
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