Hi! Picked this one up at an auction. Pure coincident that I came over it. The caliber is marked MSR (Manufactures Suisses Reunies) which again was a joint venture between Revue Thommen, Vulcain, Phenix and Buser. Caliber T44: http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&1zenoshop&b0&2uswk&MSR_T44 Appearantly Revue Thommen still use this caliber (now called GT44). Anyone seen something like this before? I might want to sell it on, so PM me if you are interested!
To be honest it looks a bit like someone's taken a Vulcain with a wrecked dial and cut some holes in it to hide the fact that the dial was bad :\
Mind you I could be completely wrong, I know nearly nothing about Vulcains, its just something we see a lot in the pocket watch converted watches and the finishing doesn't look to me like it was intended to be a skeleton.
Except I have seen more of these exactly the same. And why bother to install a skeleton movement and a display back? One for sale here also: http://www.finertimes.com/asp/watches/howtoOrder.asp?Where=(Ref='ew0061')&User=80
You're right, I just followed the first link, just surprised that the finishing on the dial side isn't decorated the way skeleton pieces tend to be is all
I agree on the decoration part.From what I have found this model dates from the early 70's. That the movement is still being used for "modern watches" up to this day can not bee a bad thing? As said it was bought by curiosity and did not hurt my wallet too badly. I will try to post some better pictures within short. All added info on this strange Vulcain is warmly welcome!
Maybe really late but I have one, for me is a beautiful machine and difficult to find, I also have the revue with same caliber Like it !
I have seen the same watch marked Revue, MSR was equivalent of ETA for Eterna back then. So when Vulcain and Revue where connected. totally kosher