SICURA – PARKINGMETER

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SICURA PARKINGMETER  

SICURA – PARKINGMETER

SICURA – PARKINGMETER

Ahhh..los dichosos parkimetros…

Este es uno de los primeros diseños de Sicura,

y sin duda el «Parkingmeter» por excelencia

1972 Sicura Knight Mystery Dial

 

Los parkimetros, esos molestos contadores de tiempo,

que nos cobran por aparcar nuestro coche  datan de 1935,

tras  la explosion del automovil  de los felices años 20

Fue entonces cuando  Carl C. Magee, sin duda un inoportuno estadounidense,

los inventase para el ayuntamiento de Oklahoma City,

con el fin de evitar que la gente dejara el coche aparcado indefinidamente en la puerta de sus negocios

Asi pues el 16 de julio de 1935,

se instalaron los primeros 150 parkimetros en la avenida comercial principal de la ciudad.

Desde entonces,

la necesidad de calcular de una forma comoda y rapida cuanto

tiempo llevaba el coche aparcado para no pagar de mas,

llevó a los fabricantes de relojes a implementar soluciones

para cubrirla.

Muchos son los relojes parkimetros que se crearon para tal fin,

y muchas marcas los ofrecian en su catalogo

Especialmente populares eran por ejemplo

los

MinuteStop

Vulcain

Perret

Paul Garnier

Clebar

Tissot

Stowa

Paul peugeot

Sheffield

Rona

Frecuentemente,

se suele confundir a muchos de los relojes de Horas saltantes

con los parkingmeters debido a su diseño

sin embargo,

un reloj parkimetro de verdad,

es aquel que lleva una función especifica para controlar dicho intervalo de tiempo.

Como por ejemplo el Zumac Parkingmeter de 1975

Ha habido relojes parkimetro anteriores y posteriores al Sicura

y Quizas el Sheffield parking meter original,

sea el mas carácteristico de todos,

Pero si a uno se le viene a la cabeza un reloj parkimetro

el primero en el que uno piensa es en el Sicura

Aunque en este blog veremos algunos mas.

Mientras tanto os dejo con un divertido video sobre el Origen de los Parkimetros

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SICURA  PARKINGMETER

1972 Sicura Knight Mystery Dial

Ahhh .. the happy parking meter watches …

This is one, is one of the first designs of Sicura,

and certainly the «Parkingmeter» Watch, par excellence.

Those pesky timers,
that charge us to park our car dates from 1935,

They Comed to our lives after the explosion of the Automobile in the Roaring 20´s

That’s when Carl C. Magee,  certainly a nowadays unwelcommed Us Citizen

invented them for the Council of Oklahoma City,

The very first hundred and fifty parking meters,went into operation on July 16, 1935.

They were installed in downtown Oklahoma City, to prevent people from casually
leaving their cars parked on the street in front of businesses — sometimes for days on end.

There was an immediate backlash from residents and even a court case contesting their legality.

However, stores on the city blocks with meters reported increased business and soon every store wanted them outside their doors.

The rise of the parking meter paralleled the dramatic increase in automobile ownership in the mid-20th century. Increased traffic resulted in extreme congestion in downtown business districts, and at first meters seemed to be the ideal solution.

Some inventions have unintended consequences, however. The parking meter — combined with post-war prosperity in the USA — helped to spark widespread interest in suburban shopping malls

Since then, a way to calculate how long had the car been parked, in order to pay no more than the neccesary,took the watch manufacturers to implement solutions to cover this need

Many parking meter watches were created over the years for this purpose,

and many brands offered them in their catalogs

Especially popular were such

the MinuteStop Models

In this entry,
you can see featured models from

Vulcain, Perret, Paul Garnier, Clebar, Tissot, Stowa, Paul peugeot, Sheffield or Rona

The parking meter watches are often confused with many of the jumping hour watches that resembles this devices by design

However, a real parkingmeter watch is one that has a specific function implemented in order  to control thus interval of time.

Such as the Zumac Parkingmeter, From  1975

There have been parking meter watches before and after the Sicura

and Perhaps the Sheffield original parking meter watch

is the most characteristic of them all..

But if one thinks in any of this watches
the first in which will come to mind is in the Sicura.

we will see more of this type of watches in this blog later

Meanwhile I leave you with a fun video about the origin of this dammned  devices..