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Sharing an old Cyma Chrono...

 

... Inspired by the post of my dear friend Blomman posted a few days ago, showing his beautiful Eterna chrono, I wish to share this other oldie which I feel was made around the same period circa 1940´s.

I´m very fond of these old chronos which surely lack the prestige and aura of some offerings from Longines or Omega, but anyway I find very enjoyable the charm of their dials, scales and set of hands.

In this case, this watch of the Cyma brand exhibits a beautiful set of  blued hands as well as telemetric and tachimetric scales.

I also feel that the movement signed Cyma 789 could be based in a Valjoux 71 like in Blooman´s watch. I wish my friends here can confirm or rectify this.
Below the serial number, there is another number which I think is the reference of this model: "4822".

I enjoy very much wearing this type of old chronos on my wrist and feeling the mood of past times old gone.

I hope you´ll like it!

Best cordial regards, Abel.










 












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Dear Abel, what a beauty! :)

 
By: blomman Mr Blue : December 10th, 2014-14:25
The hands, the case... Love it! May I ask which size is the case? As for the movement, yes the Valjoux Cal 71 looks very similar as your movement. But, due to the pusher shape and some of the positions of screws and holes.... I would rather guess that you...  

Thank you dear friend Blomman for your information...

 
By: Subexplorer : December 10th, 2014-15:53
... now I can say for sure which is the correct movement, but you are right that the pushers are similar to the second one split seconds. Anyway, my watch is Not an split second chrono, though may be that Valjoux was the base for the Cyma without the spli... 

Hope the experts can share some light here....

 
By: blomman Mr Blue : December 11th, 2014-00:48
My pleasure, my friend. It is always good to know more about our watches! :) Best Blomman

Base caliber...

 
By: SuitbertW : December 12th, 2014-00:47
Hi all, base caliber for this Cyma Tavannes movement is VX 22, which is also the base caliber for VX 71 (added hour counter to main plate dial side) and VX 84 (added mono rattrapante Bovet system). Cyma did some special modification (proprietary for Cyma ... 

Thank you Nicolas! Yes, these are old cool watches...

 
By: Subexplorer : December 10th, 2014-13:49
... this is part of an small collection of chronos I assembled some time ago when I started with this hobby of watch collecting. These are not very expensive watches but giving a lot of enjoyment specially for their beautiful dials. I´m sure they deserve ...