Sonceboz SA watch--cannot find much info...anybody recognize?

[LittleWatchShop]

 

Strange design.  This was in a Mickey Mouse watch I am servicing.

[JohnR725]

11 hours ago, LittleWatchShop said:

Mickey Mouse watch

it looks better than the Mickey Mouse that I'm supposed to be servicing at work. At least yours has more jewels mine only has one.

then I would agree the design looks strange if the letters spelling Swiss weren't stamped all over it I might think it was made somewhere else perhaps.

[Neverenoughwatches]

1 hour ago, JohnR725 said:

Swiss weren't stamped all over it I might think it was made somewhere else perhaps.

I've never seen the words swiss PRODUCT used, could that mean that it isn't swiss MADE ?

[KarlvonKoln]

Well...it's not a Bradley.  Outside of that, I couldn't tell you.  Haven't seen one like it myself.

[RichardHarris123]

The bridge screws look massive.  

[LittleWatchShop]

1 hour ago, RichardHarris123 said:

The bridge screws look massive.  

They are. All the same.

It does not use a conventional cannon pinion. Instead, on the bottom of the barrel there is a slip gear that drives the motion works.

 

[Marc]

I wonder if the word "Voumard" on the ratchet wheel is any kind of a clue?

I have heard of Voumard watches but didn't know if they used in-house movements or not. However a quick search on Ranfft credits them with at least two in-house movements, although nothing like this one, but then Ranfft isn't an exhaustive list of everything that has ever been made. Sadly Google isn't coming up with very much that helps.

2 hours ago, LittleWatchShop said:

on the bottom of the barrel there is a slip gear

This sounds like a Roskopf design often found in pin lever movements. I think I read somewhere that Roskopf was the inventor of the pin pallet movement, but I may have that wrong.

[Nucejoe]

4 hours ago, Neverenoughwatches said:

I've never seen the words swiss PRODUCT used, could that mean that it isn't swiss MADE ?

Perhaps thsts whst it means but more so it shows mickey can sell. 

[LittleWatchShop]

20 minutes ago, Marc said:

This sounds like a Roskopf design

I would say Roskopf-esque.  This watch is not pin lever, however.  It is a nice movement and clearly reduced the number of screws by combining functions.  It also feels Seiko-ish the way the click spring is designed.