Ebel - History, Models and Owners' Reviews

I am lucky to have a small collection of watches, mainly Rolex, but this is my first Ebel! It is elegant and sporty at the same time and I have a great pleasure in looking at it. The little "beating heart" at noon almost makes you think of a tourbillon. I know that it is not always essential for some, but it is very readable and it makes you want to look at the time! I love this black and steel skeleton in the center of this iconic bracelet.

There are things that linger in the background of our minds for a long time. They are there waiting for their time while guiding us when necessary without us realizing it. A feeling that we cannot verbalize. This Ebel is the embodiment of it. I did not have the brand and its inimitable design in mind but I often found myself thinking that something was missing from a watch that I was considering purchasing. And then one day, while I was consulting a book on watch advertising, I saw it and everything came flooding back. Don Johnson in Miami Vice, André Agassi at the US Open, Alain Prost before the TAG period. This watch is class. For me, it appropriates chic sport without copying it. It is better known and esteemed in its El Primero version but this Le Modulor version, which refers to the history of the house and its headquarters installed in the Turkish villa designed by Le Corbusier, arrived later and is not without interest. It has a Lemania caliber improved on two points: the winding with a system close to Seiko's Magic Level and the precision with a system that guarantees a constant torque when using the chronograph, ensuring chronometer certification even for short times. Charm, comfort, presence, it is a bourgeois sports car that quickly transforms into a sassy bourgeois, equally at ease with a blazer, a t-shirt or a tennis polo shirt. I looked for it for a while and since I have it I can say without hesitation that Ebel is my favorite brand. I already dream of reuniting the family with a Discovery and a Voyager on the same 6-screw design. Yes 6 screws, look at the crown. Appropriate without copying.

For the record, I present to you today this unique vintage watch.⁣⁣⁣⁣ My grandfather's EBEL with mechanical winding, it is a watch in his image, unique and complex.⁣⁣⁣⁣ The white gold case, the mechanism also and a slightly smoked convex sapphire glass. The simple black dial with a hand for the hour, the minutes, but not for the seconds. The bracelet having lived as much as him has been replaced by a very simple black leather strap that matches the complexity of the shape of the case.⁣⁣⁣⁣ My grandfather arrived in Belgium at the end of the 50s, he was an elegant man, always in a suit that people called Monsieur. He never went down the mine and very quickly joined Brussels where he started to undertake, he ran the café des artistes, rue des pierres opposite the Ancienne Belgique and then opened Greek restaurants, Zorba, l'Europe, le Parnasse on the main square. All this without knowing how to read or write. My grandfather had a big heart, he knew how to give in order to receive. A striking example, 5 years ago, one evening when I was hungry, we went, some friends and I to an old Greek restaurant in Waregem, the only one still open at 11:30 p.m. This gentleman asked me who I was and I explained to him. When I told him about my grandfather, the gentleman sat on his chair and was moved, he confessed to me that when he arrived in Belgium in 1970, my grandfather had housed him for free for 1 month and had given him a little money so that he could get started, what a coincidence. He was generous and left me this watch, a watch that he himself received as a gift from a Cypriot shipowner.⁣⁣⁣⁣ This watch is a little bit of a trace of his passage and of what he left me, with this watch, he is still a little bit with me and I always wear it on special occasions. The watch is one of the only jewels of the man, but more than an object, it represents emotion & memory.⁣⁣⁣⁣ A watch, a story.⁣⁣⁣⁣