La cyclo-montre de la Manufacture d’Horlogerie de Béthune — L’Officiel du cycle, 19 September 1953, a Dural Handlebar Clock for the Bicycle

From L’Officiel du cycle, du motocycle et du camping, 19 September 1953, N° 39, the paper’s Salon number du Cycle at the Porte de Versailles, page 81: la cyclo-montre de la Manufacture d’Horlogerie de Béthune: a dural handlebar clock for bicycles (60 mm, 135 g), shown in a photograph. The title, headings, captions and lists are transcribed as printed; the text is summarized in Ebykr’s words, and the page images carry it in full.

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La cyclo-montre
de la Manufacture d’Horlogerie de Béthune

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The notice says that this firm of the North has brought out an original creation in its Cyclo-Montre, which the magazine’s illustration represents.]

[Ebykr summary, after the illustration; the article’s text is not reproduced. Intended to be fixed on a bicycle handlebar, the watch has a copper movement and a watertight dural case, with luminous hands and a black dial. Its height is 60 mm and its weight 135 grams. Fitting is very easy and quick. The notice concludes that it is a handy device for the innumerable cyclo-tourists and cyclo-campers.]

[An editorial notice in one column of a trade magazine, with a boxed photograph between two short blocks of text. The heading stands at the right in bold roman type on two lines, “La cyclo-montre” above “de la Manufacture d’Horlogerie de Béthune”. An italic line of introduction sits under it. The photograph inside a thin black rule is a halftone, slightly mottled, of a round handlebar clock seen from the front and a little from the right. The black dial carries white numerals from 1 to 12 and two broad pale hands pointing toward the 11 and the 7, with a pale rim round the dial. A deep dark case extends behind the face, and below it a curved metal strap with a small clamping screw forms the handlebar mount. The text under the photograph is set in italic type in three short paragraphs. No caption, no signature, no artist mark and no address block appear.]