VINTAGE FORTIS CHRONOGRAH 17 JEWELS VALJOUX 7733 VERY RARE RUNING VERY WELL

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VINTAGE FORTIS CHRONOGRAH 17 JEWELS VALJOUX 7733 VERY RARE RUNING VERY WELL:
$233.75

For your considerationis a very nice rare vintage Fortis chronograph 17 jewels valjoux 7733 pilots .Avery cool looking watch nice design dial its Orange secs hand and sub dial hands that sweeps very nice very hard to find one in the uk , good size 37mm without crown 40mm with, 41mm lug to lug, 20mm lugs ,its now on a new shark mesh and also comes with a one off 806 stach brown leather strap look them up on the net cost £50 bot will fit a 8 + inch wrist or less. see photos.Just take a look at the dial on this very nice but it has wear so please see the condition part of this listing it will help you.the watch keeps good time within a min a day chronograph is all working as it should the glass has a mark at 7 o\'clock not that bad see photos easy fix if you want to i like to leave them as they are watch.Starts at 99p so grab a bargain its keeping good time . Please see my other watches for sale and if you need any any more information please don\'t hesitate to contact me.I have dyslexia i try my best but i know its hard for most to get what i put down ,i do take good photos to help you, some of the best on i think.History of Valjoux watchesThe nameValjouxcomes from \"Vallée de Joux\", a formerly inaccessible mountain region of Switzerland long associated with chronograph design and construction.Originally farmers, the locals turned to doing craft on the kitchen table during the freezing winters when they couldn\'t do much else, and thus a long line of watchmakers was born.In 1844 an inhabitant of the Joux Valley namedAdolphe Nicole, applied for the patent of a heart-shaped cam design, which enabled the building of the first useful watch with a chronograph in 1862.Valjouxwas founded in \"Valley de Joux\" in the mid-to-late part of the 19th century. Valjoux originally made timers (stopwatches) and chronograph movements.In 1890 or so, they invented the column wheel which revolutionized the chronograph movements. Virtually every chronograph movement made since then used a column wheel untill the late 40\'s or so whenLanderoninvented the cam/lever shuttle as a cheaper alternative.A majority of chronograph movements today use a cam/lever switch. Throughout the 20th century, manufacturers like:Valjoux, Lemania, Landeron & Venusmade the vast majority of all chrono movements.When the watch business collapsed in the latter half of the 20th century,Venusfailed andValjouxbought them over, therebyValjouxattained the rights to the new cam/lever and switch of Cal 188 thatVenushad made. This was rebranded as Val 7730 and sold for a year or two until theValjouxredesign of this movement was made - the7733.Valjoux\'s modification of the caliber results in the more cost effective manufacture of the movement and the design set offs the series creation of 7734, 7735, 7736, 7737, 775x and 776x calibers.These basic cam designs are still used today which features the familiar start, stop and reset action now seen in all mechanical chronographs and stopwatches.Over the years, chronograph manufacturers had improve on their own designs and the designs of other manufacturers.In 1939Landeroncame out with the pioneering calibers 47 and 48.Valjouxproduced the 13 ligne ratchet wheel caliber from 1946, and also made 175,000 copies of the 1948 Venus 188 cal. up to 1973.The Valjoux 7730 (14 ligne, 6mm high) was produced until 1967. However, the much more successful were the 7733 (with 30 minute or 45 minute sub dials), the 7734 (with date), and the 7736 (with 12-hour sub dial) made between 1969 and 1978.Almost 2 million of these movements left the factory, destined to tick away merrily in watches made by such names as Hamilton, Helbros, Le Jour, Memosail, Wittenaur, and Breitling.Note the use of wire springs at various places around the movement. Some enthusiasts regard this as a weakness in the design, as they can go out of adjustment.Still, the ubiquitous 7750 movement (an automatic-winding descendant of the 7733) uses the same springs but nevertheless has a well-earned reputation for ruggedness and reliability.

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