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<p>[QUOTE="Lecollectionneur, post: 435326, member: 8569"]Swiss original hallmarks are on the left, bear standing for .875 and more, the small one is normally a flower, an edelweiss or in french a "gentiane", I cannot have a better look on the picture.</p><p>The standard is in Switzerland 0,800, 925 is used actually and since near a century by silversmiths on their work, but you can found all international % on swiss watches, they make for example 84 zolotniki for russian market, directly hallmarked in Le Locle, but for national market, there is 18 kt for gold and 0,800 for silver, gold is not legal for sale as new if it's less than that.</p><p>It's very interessant and I've make a lot of search about hallmarking in Switzerland because they were no national hallmarks before the metric %, only for towns, official books about that are uncommon, I give you two covers of them for example.</p><p>We have an organism called METAS which has all archives and makes legal terms for all measuring laws.</p><p>On the first one you can read in french than they control watches cases since 1754 in La Chaux-De-Fonds.</p><p><img src="http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2018/49/2/1543930490-titre-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2018/49/2/1543930488-titre.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lecollectionneur, post: 435326, member: 8569"]Swiss original hallmarks are on the left, bear standing for .875 and more, the small one is normally a flower, an edelweiss or in french a "gentiane", I cannot have a better look on the picture. The standard is in Switzerland 0,800, 925 is used actually and since near a century by silversmiths on their work, but you can found all international % on swiss watches, they make for example 84 zolotniki for russian market, directly hallmarked in Le Locle, but for national market, there is 18 kt for gold and 0,800 for silver, gold is not legal for sale as new if it's less than that. It's very interessant and I've make a lot of search about hallmarking in Switzerland because they were no national hallmarks before the metric %, only for towns, official books about that are uncommon, I give you two covers of them for example. We have an organism called METAS which has all archives and makes legal terms for all measuring laws. On the first one you can read in french than they control watches cases since 1754 in La Chaux-De-Fonds. [IMG]http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2018/49/2/1543930490-titre-1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2018/49/2/1543930488-titre.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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