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Silver Excelsior Watch Amsterdam 1928 Olympic games Diving Coach Ernst Brandsten
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Description Team: USA Diving Team Product: Silver Pocket Watch Sport: Diving Brand: Excelsior Park Event: Amsterdam 1928 Olympic Games Country/Region of Manufacture: Switzerland
An obviously unique piece of American Olympic History, this beautiful boxed silver Excelsior Park Pocket Stop watch with inscription referring to the Coach of the USA 1928 Olympic Diving team , Ernst Brandsten. The Swiss watch is a collectible in itself. Excelsior Park is well known for their sports watches. You can find out lots of information about them on the internet. The watch has a silver casing on the inside and outside. The lids have matching numbers and both bare the Swiss "standing bear" hallmark and the finest silver 0,900 mark. The stylish inscription reads " In Appreciation to Ernst Brandsten Coach American Olympic Diving Team 1928". Underneath you can read a short biography on Ernst Brandsten who has a grand olympic heritage.The watch is working but I do not give any guarantee on it in anyway. This is your only chance to purchase this rare piece of 1928 Olympic memorabilia.Excelsior park WatchesIn 1928 Excelsior Park asserts the title of more important Swiss factory for sport stop-watches. The range increased with stop-watches for canoeing, car sport, rowing, soccer, decimal timers, other measuring the hundreth of a second with the hand making a turn in one second. The RF on this watch probably stands for Robert Freres who manufactured watch cases.Swiss Silver HallmarkSometimes a standard of fineness of 900‰ or 0.900 is seen. This was never introduced into Swiss law as a standard, but 900 fineness silver was a popular grade because it was the standard of coin silver in a number of European and other countries. The precious metals act of 1880 specified for silver the higher standard of fineness of 875‰ and higher. There was nothing to stop manufacturers making watch cases from 900‰ silver, stamping them "900" as shown in the picture here, and submitting them for assay and hallmarking. The "bear" was used for silver 875‰ and higher, independent the actual fineness, so this mark was applied to the item as shown in the picture — the faint mark above the 900 is the bear. The bear did not guarantee that the item was 900‰, only that it was at least 875‰.Ernst Brandsten 1928 Olympic Diving team Coach1912 Olympic competitor for Sweden and 4 time USA Olympic diving coach; His male divers won all 6 medals (springboard, platform) in 1928 Olympics; invented tapered springboard and movable fulcrum.Ernst Brandsten of Stanford University, USA, like Mike Peppe, could stand on his swimming record alone, but his divers would be mighty unhappy if he did. He was active for 51 years as a ski jumper, diver and coach, competing from 1897 through the 1912 Olympics for Sweden where he married his first Olympic diving champion, Greta Johansson. After Sweden, Ernie shipped out on a windjammer, helped chart the coast of Alaska for the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, ended up at Stanford where his college divers, Hall of Famers Pinkston, White and Desjardins dominated the 1920, '24 and '28 Olympics plus everything stateside before, during, between and after those Games. Brandsten was U.S. Olympic diving coach four times. He is considered the Father of Modern Diving. He invented the tapered springboard and movable fulcrum, developed divers who went on to coach and develop champions as he had. In 1924, Brandsten did something no diving coach before or since has ever accomplished, when his Stanford-trained divers won all six male diving medals, placing 1, 2, 3 in both springboard and tower at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Lest it sound like diving alone, Olympic swimmers Norman Ross, Ludy Langer and Hall of Fame water polo player Wally O'Connor were also Ernie's boys.If you have any questions or want more detailed pictures please email. Please make sure before you bid that you have asked everything you wanted to know about this item and that it is the item you want. Thankyou. Please inquire about postage costs inside Europe. Postage stated for the USA is priority registered mail.Check out my !Be sure to add me to your !
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| Team: | USA Diving Team | Product: | Silver Pocket Watch |
| Sport: | Diving | Brand: | Excelsior Park |
| Event: | Amsterdam 1928 Olympic Games | Country/Region of Manufacture: | Switzerland |
An obviously unique piece of American Olympic History, this beautiful boxed silver Excelsior Park Pocket Stop watch with inscription referring to the Coach of the USA 1928 Olympic Diving team , Ernst Brandsten. The Swiss watch is a collectible in itself. Excelsior Park is well known for their sports watches. You can find out lots of information about them on the internet. The watch has a silver casing on the inside and outside. The lids have matching numbers and both bare the Swiss "standing bear" hallmark and the finest silver 0,900 mark. The stylish inscription reads " In Appreciation to Ernst Brandsten Coach American Olympic Diving Team 1928". Underneath you can read a short biography on Ernst Brandsten who has a grand olympic heritage.The watch is working but I do not give any guarantee on it in anyway. This is your only chance to purchase this rare piece of 1928 Olympic memorabilia.Excelsior park WatchesIn 1928 Excelsior Park asserts the title of more important Swiss factory for sport stop-watches. The range increased with stop-watches for canoeing, car sport, rowing, soccer, decimal timers, other measuring the hundreth of a second with the hand making a turn in one second. The RF on this watch probably stands for Robert Freres who manufactured watch cases.Swiss Silver HallmarkSometimes a standard of fineness of 900‰ or 0.900 is seen. This was never introduced into Swiss law as a standard, but 900 fineness silver was a popular grade because it was the standard of coin silver in a number of European and other countries. The precious metals act of 1880 specified for silver the higher standard of fineness of 875‰ and higher. There was nothing to stop manufacturers making watch cases from 900‰ silver, stamping them "900" as shown in the picture here, and submitting them for assay and hallmarking. The "bear" was used for silver 875‰ and higher, independent the actual fineness, so this mark was applied to the item as shown in the picture — the faint mark above the 900 is the bear. The bear did not guarantee that the item was 900‰, only that it was at least 875‰.Ernst Brandsten 1928 Olympic Diving team Coach
1912 Olympic competitor for Sweden and 4 time USA Olympic diving coach; His male divers won all 6 medals (springboard, platform) in 1928 Olympics; invented tapered springboard and movable fulcrum.Ernst Brandsten of Stanford University, USA, like Mike Peppe, could stand on his swimming record alone, but his divers would be mighty unhappy if he did. He was active for 51 years as a ski jumper, diver and coach, competing from 1897 through the 1912 Olympics for Sweden where he married his first Olympic diving champion, Greta Johansson. After Sweden, Ernie shipped out on a windjammer, helped chart the coast of Alaska for the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, ended up at Stanford where his college divers, Hall of Famers Pinkston, White and Desjardins dominated the 1920, '24 and '28 Olympics plus everything stateside before, during, between and after those Games. Brandsten was U.S. Olympic diving coach four times. He is considered the Father of Modern Diving. He invented the tapered springboard and movable fulcrum, developed divers who went on to coach and develop champions as he had. In 1924, Brandsten did something no diving coach before or since has ever accomplished, when his Stanford-trained divers won all six male diving medals, placing 1, 2, 3 in both springboard and tower at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Lest it sound like diving alone, Olympic swimmers Norman Ross, Ludy Langer and Hall of Fame water polo player Wally O'Connor were also Ernie's boys.
If you have any questions or want more detailed pictures please email. Please make sure before you bid that you have asked everything you wanted to know about this item and that it is the item you want. Thankyou. Please inquire about postage costs inside Europe. Postage stated for the USA is priority registered mail.Check out my !Be sure to add me to your !
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