BOMA Small Seconds cal. AS 1123 / 1950s Swiss Local Brand

— The quiet of no famous name —

BOMA.

Details of the brand's activities are unknown, but it appears to have been a postwar local brand using Swiss movements.

— Form and composition —

A case of about 34mm.

A small seconds at six.

Applied indexes on a matt white dial now burnt to cream.

— A general-purpose calibre that carried the industry —

The Cal. AS1123 is a general-purpose manual-wind movement made by A. Schild.

It was used in many Swiss watches through the 1950s and 60s.

Winding feels light, and it is designed for daily use.

Plenty of service documentation survives, so it is an easy mechanism to live with on the vintage market.

The Cal. AS1123 belonged to no particular brand and was combined with a wide range of cases and dials.

That gives it great variety of form, and every example has a different expression.

It quietly supports the technical core that lives even in an unnamed watch.

— Which is exactly why it deserves to be chosen —

Almost no documentation of the brand survives today, and yet the way it brings a certain wit to a suit cuff makes it, without exaggeration, one embodiment of what a vintage watch should be.

Weathered, forgotten, no longer talked about — it is exactly among such things that the eye of whoever chooses is put to the test.

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