Ads in the 1920’s proclaimed Buren to be “The Perfect Watch” and boasted of the linking up of Swiss watch manufacturing with British Enterprise and Capital. Williamson, bought a watch factory in Switzerland and created the Buren Watch Company. “From 1899 to 1932, Buren was the Swiss factory of H. Here's some information from Revenant Watches which is now (unfortunately) down. The earlier serial number may help to explain the absence of a hallmark on my example, or maybe the serial number my example bears is one of a series given to un-marked movements? I don't know. Diving down the Rabbit Hole a bit further, I found the following dial marking(s) on a watch with a very similar-looking movement:Īs well as a completely separate listing on eBay which bears a "Buren" hallmark on its (identical-looking) movement, though the serial number is very much higher (#659375) compared to the example that I have (#109440).
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