The post was mine - full story (and it is a compelling one)here:http://omegaforums.net/threads/who-was-charles-vermot.2711/#post-31347

: I've found this description on a post from Watchuseek. I hope it
: may help

: An intro describes the quartz crisis and the return
: ("resurrection") of mechanical movements as
: background. M. Vermot appears at 1:08 to comment on quartz
: movements. The Zenith story begins at 2:03 with the sale to
: American Zenith. At 2:30 M. Vermot gets introduced as he is
: pottering in his garden. El Primero gets introduced at 2:44. He
: was "chef de fabrication des ebauches," "chief of
: ebauche manufacturing."
: 2:47 - M. Vermot tells of receiving the order to stop production of
: the El P.
: 3:24 - he writes a letter to management to request that the machine
: tools for the El P be preserved. Denied.
: 4:12 - the ebauche manufactuiring building is liquidated and sold
: (interesting that it still has Martel signage on it at the time
: the video was made - Zenith had bought Martel in 1960. Or the
: signage could refer to the place - Pont de Martel)
: 4:16 - M. Vermot is asked what he did with the machine tools. He
: talks about again asking permission to store the material, which
: is refused in a patronizing way, the way he tells it
: ("little Vermot from Pont de Martel is mired in his swamp.
: He has to wake up. It is the electronic era!")
: 5:14 - he starts to hide the material in the "galetat" of
: the company (anybody know that word?)
: 5:24 - he tells about the few colleagues who knew what he was up to
: telling him he was being ridiculous, but insists that he
: remained confident nonetheless that mechanical movements would
: one day be popular again.
: The narrator values the machine tools he saved at SFr 6 million.
: 6:26 - Vermot describes being told by new management in 1984 that
: mechanical movement manufacture is going to resume.
: 6:38 - the high point of the story (for me) is captured in M.
: Vermot's choking up, an intense little moment of emotion in
: response to the quesion:"Were you happy?" (at the news
: of the resumption of production)
: 6:51 - Narrator: "It was your dream coming to pass"
: Vermot: "Indeed" He seems close to tears at the
: memory.
: 7:06 - Vermot apparently kept careful notes about settings and
: instrunctions which allowed the resumption of production much
: more efficiently than would otherwise have been possible.
: Narrator: "A dream bolstered by some solid work. Not
: content with having arranged and labeled the equipment, the
: diminutive chief of manufacturing had consigned to a binder all
: the instructions necessary to put it back into function."
: 7:20 - "Did the new management reward you?" A watch and a
: banquet.
: Sum up follows -- "All the parts were put back in place,
: production of the chronograph resumed. Today it is the star
: product of the company"