HP102

Mouvement HP102

Montre de marque HP Hercules (Henzi & Pfaff)

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Source : https://deployant.com/new-hercules-hp1-returns-with-interesting-twist-to-in-house-movement/

Hercules who? A bit of Heinzi & Pfaff history

Henzi & Pfaff was a German watch brand which began when Robert Pfaff founded the manufactory in Pforzheim in the 1920s. After WWII, Robert Henzi joined as a partner and founded the new company. In circa 1948, they developed a new movement – the Caliber 101. Henzi & Pfaff employed more than 200 people in their manufactory by 1952. And by 1957, they have added the Cal 102 and 103 to their catalog, and had sold 1 million pieces. In 1953, a German-Austrian mountaineering group made an attempt to summit the Nanga Prabat in the Himalayan range for the first time. Henzi & Pfaff saw this as an excellent marketing tool and supplied them with watches which were branded Hercules. The team, led by Austrian mountaineer Hermann Buhl summited the Nagra Prabat mountain at 8126m with a Hercules on his wrist.

In 1960, the Pfaff family fell into a financial crisis and Robert Henzi took over the company on his own. It was a tumultuous decade, and by 1972, with the assault of the quartz crisis, the company folded and ceased operations.