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New York. This is what I came up with.
Roland A. Gsell was born in St.Imier, Switzerland;
this is the same town to the home of Longines.
Mr. Gsell came to the United States in 1918 and started his own watch importing business, R. Gsell & Company, on Maiden Lane in Manhattan. He became an American citizen in 1922 and was active in the jewelry and watch industry throughout his life. He retired in the mid-1970's.
Unfortunately he passed away at age 95 back in 1991.
The name F. Suter and Cie. may not be familiar
to anyone. However, F. Suter was the founder of
Buren Watch Company in 1867.
Buren was famous for the micro-rotor that was used
in by both Universal's Polerouter and Hamilton's
Thino-Matic. In 1969 when Caliber 11 an automatic
chronograph was being developed.
The Buren micro-rotor was used in part with the
Depraz-Dubois Chronograph Module.
Last edited on Tue Aug 4th, 2009 10:24 am by Simon_Leung