oh man that flight timer is the bee's knees!
those Swiss Army chronos are solid pieces and very economically found second hand. we snagged this one this past week.
that red dial is fire! 👍
Several years ago, I began collecting interesting Valjoux, Landeron, etc chronographs because they were affordable and often struck my fancy. Please share your favorites. I’ll start with something from the Sears and Roebuck catalog. This is a Valjoux 7733. I'll try to put up a movement photo later.
Larry, the one just above here is VERY affordable. I guess I was thinking not Rolex, not Omega, not Heuer, not Zenith, etc. I did post the Wakmann that runs a little higher than what I had in mind when I started the thread, but mostly I'd say under 1500 usd, maybe? That covers a lot of old Vals and Landerons. What I no longer consider affordable, to collect, multiples anyway, are vintage Speedmasters. Of course it's all relative to the depth of one's pockets.
Sobrinos y Cuervo powered by a Landeron 51; Unitas powered by a Venus 210; and, a Poljot 23 powered by an in-house 3133, which was supposedly derived from the Valjoux 7734. I have also included a photo of the Poljot 23 next to a Dueber Hampden wristwatch -- which is actually a Dueber Hampden lever set pocket watch movement placed into a "conversion" wristwatch kit popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Dueber Hampden was a Canton, Ohio watch and watch case maker that the government of the Soviet Union bought in the late 1920s. The USSR shipped all the factory equipment and parts and work in progress inventory to Moscow to create Watch Factory #1, and the beginning of the Soviet watch industry. Twenty DH watchmakers were contracted and moved to the USSR to teach watchmaking.
