Garuda 5 Sports Swiss Made 21 Jewels

[hanscherza]

I've got Garuda 5 Sports Swiss Made 21 Jewels Manual, This is Swiss Made but trade mark like Indonesian languange, its very great watch , May any body knows about history this mark? thanks

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[Hartmut Richter]

The movement is Swiss, by Ronda, probably with a pin lever escapement. Something like the Cal. 1221:

http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?00&ranfft&0&2uswk&Ronda_1221_21

Hartmut Richter

[Erik_H]

Garuda is an Indonesian airline carrier. The name means a big mythical bird and appears in Hindu and Buddhist mythology. It is possible this might be a private label watch made to the airline company? I saw one other Garuda labeled watch with Ronda movement on the net.

[hanscherza]

Ok thanks for your attentions brother :-!

[Somewhere else]

Lets not forget the tendency of Swiss companies to really search the globe for names to called themselves. The Newfoundland Watch company wised up and changed their name to Omega, but there were names like "Moeris" (the lake in the middle of the Suez Canal) and "Comor" from the Comorre Islands off Madigascar. Garuda might also be one of these.

[Chascomm]

Lets not forget the tendency of Swiss companies to really search the globe for names to called themselves. The Newfoundland Watch company wised up and changed their name to Omega, but there were names like "Moeris" (the lake in the middle of the Suez Canal) and "Comor" from the Comorre Islands off Madigascar. Garuda might also be one of these.Well Moeris used to supply watches to the Cairo tramway company, so perhaps this Garuda watch was intentionally named for the Indonesian market?