Aquastar Regate
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Aquastar Regate
In 1961 JeanRichard SA had filed for a patent for a regatta watch with a 5 minute countdown function. This patent represents the “Birth Certificate” of the regatta yachttimer watches as we still know them today. And somewhere in the mid 1960’s Frédéric Robert (mentioned as inventor in the patent) developed the Aquastar Regate from this patent with a modified Felsa 4000N movement: the first Regatta Yachttimer wrist watch on the market!
PIECE OF HOROLOGY ALLOWING THE COUNTING OF A RESTRICTED NUMBER OF MINUTES
‘The enclosed design represents, as an example, a kind of execution of a piece of horology being the subject of the invention. The figure 1 represents the watch as it appears to the user. The hand of the second 1 is located in the centre of the movement and the dial includes an opening 2 through which appears the surface upper side of an indicating organ 3, including a coloured zone 3A indicating in the graduation of the dial opening the time elapsed since the re-setting to zero of the hand of the seconds obtained by pressing the pusher 4, the crown 5 being used to rewind and to set the time of the hour and the minutes hands’.
Aquastar Regate
* Reference: Z 28 A or 143.600 or 000.5? * Caliber: Felsa 4000N movement with an Aquastar patented (1964) regatta module. * Case size: Ø 37,4 mm / H 13,5 mm. * Year: mid 1960’s.
