Descobri por acaso um post no Watchuseek com o seguinte texto, narrando o que se via no documentário:
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"
Mas o link estava incorreto e, então, o procurei no youtube. Mais legal do que o vídeo, até mesmo porque não sei francês, é o texto acima. Quem não souber inglês, traduza-o no google tradutor. A imagem do Vermot a partir dos 06m30 é de chorar, sério.
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Flávio