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<p>[QUOTE="ItsAJ, post: 116640, member: 1675"]Glad I'm not the only one who can see retard haha, that's a good point though ! Just found this on another post from a different forum. </p><p>"advance/retard is no brand, but just French for fast/slow. It indicates where to move the regulator lever to speed up or slow down the rate of the watch. French inscriptions usually indicate that it is a Swiss watch, and most old Swiss watches were made in a kind of home industry. They have no brand, nothing is recorded, and numbers helped only to keep case parts together, because they were not interchangable." Makes sense why I can't find anything on it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ItsAJ, post: 116640, member: 1675"]Glad I'm not the only one who can see retard haha, that's a good point though ! Just found this on another post from a different forum. "advance/retard is no brand, but just French for fast/slow. It indicates where to move the regulator lever to speed up or slow down the rate of the watch. French inscriptions usually indicate that it is a Swiss watch, and most old Swiss watches were made in a kind of home industry. They have no brand, nothing is recorded, and numbers helped only to keep case parts together, because they were not interchangable." Makes sense why I can't find anything on it.[/QUOTE]
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