This is the stuff every watch nerd runs hot for. On top of that, there’s the already mentioned city ring with approximately 40 world cities and the red or orange pointer ring. The inner bezel ring is rotated by the upper crown to make that happen. This big boy has a GMT complication and an extra hand (a thin steel hand with yellow or red tip, or even better, the very cool checkered rally hand), so a second time zone can be set. I already mentioned the Guide being a tool watch.
The orange pointer ring! The red ‘n black GMT hand! The yellow inner bezel! There’s even some green in there. To illustrate my point, here’s a photo of the Guide peeping out under the sleeve of my winter jacket. Also, the many colors of the rotating inner bezel with the 24 hrs scale, are insane. There is a very insightful article about these high quality super compressor cases over here. For a part that’s the result of the enormous stainless steel EPSA (Ervin Piquerez S.A.) case. The Enicar Sherpa Guide is a bad ass watch. A catalogue photo from the mid seventies of the Guide. But hey, these were tool watches and they were heavily used! Guides generally took more beatings than Rocky Balboa in the complete saga. Pointers are often broken and the city ring is faded, scratched and not seldom unreadable. But it’s rare to find a Guide in good condition. Usually there are ten to fifteen of these on eBay at any given moment. The Enicar Sherpa Guide is not a very rare watch. I’m not going to get into detail, because there is already written an excellent article on about the many production phases that this model went through. As with most Enicar Sherpa models, there are numerous variations in case, dial, hands and bezels.
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