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 1940s. Im very fond of these old chronos which surely lack...
Dear Abel, what a beauty! :)
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...
... 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....
My pleasure, my friend. It is always good to know more about our watches! :) Best Blomman
Base caliber...
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...
... 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 ...