- From: Martin Vogt <m-b.vogt@xxxxxxx.de>
- Date: January 17, 2006 5:52:02 AM CST
- To: <Chuck Maddox>
- Subject: Info on the Valjoux 72 5
Hi Chuck, it's always a pleasure to read your watch blog. I wish I could find the time/material to post more frequently. Hopefully I will and things will pick up. You asked for further information on the Val. 72 theme and I checked my good old Chronograph 'bible' , the Lang-Meis, Chronographen, Armbanduhren: Die Zeit zum Anhalten (transl. : Chronographs, Wristwatches: The Time to Stop) published by Callwey, 1992, (not continued!) unfortunately only available in german. (One of the authors is Mr. Gerd R. Lang, owner of Chronoswiss, a master-watchmaker, watch-maniac and a chrono specialist . Searching the model-tableaus I found a remark on the Valjoux 725 : 12-hour counter and flyback device..... But no photo or further description.... Wow, well that makes sense! Thanks for the info/insight! This is the only information on this movement I ever noticed since collecting chronographs. Neither other books nor the internet brought additional information. Maybe this was a Valjoux project only which was not continued??? That's a possibility... Or it could be some firm incorporated the movement into a product without making a splash about it. Best regards from Germany Martin PS: According to the named book, the Val. 71 has 14''' only. Anyone told me that the Val.71 should have been the predecessor of the Val.72. The corresponding two-subdial version to the Val. 71 is the Val. 22 (also 14''') with its successor Val.23 Good information to know! Thanks Martin! Here is an updated table: Valjoux 72 Family of Chronograph Movements: | Movement #: | Description: | 71 | Large 15 Ligne version of Valjoux 72 (13 Ligne or just under) | 72 | Basic Plain Jane Valjoux 72. | 721 | "Seafarer" Tides complication in 9 o'clock sub-dial... | 722 | Rolex variant with Breguet Overcoil & MicroStella Balance | 72c/723 | Tri-Date non-moonphase v.72 | 724 | GMT complication | 725 | Fly-back complication, not certain it was ever produced in quantity | 726 | Improved v.72 movement. | 727 | Rolex version of 726 with Bruget Overcoil & MicroStella* | 728 | 1 Register/Center Pinion Chrono Minute hand varitant. | 729 | GMT, probably v.726 with GMT complicaton added. | 730 | Another Triple-Date model, perhaps DDM v.726? | 88 | Triple-Date Moonphase model (v.723/72c with Moonphase) | * Note: The posting of Kohei's scan of the GP is something that throws a monkey wrench into my theory of the v.727 being a Rolex Exclusive movement, I think there is more to this movement than I know at this time. |
Thank you Martin for increasing our knowledge! -- Chuck |
2 Comments:
Hello!
I'm Portuguese. My name's Manuel António. I have a Longines caliber 330. Surpriselly, his basis caliber is the famous Valjoux 72.
At the moment, that's all.
Thanks.
Manuel António.
manuel.antonio14@gmail.com
Here is a Breguet Type XX Military Chronograph with the Valjoux 725 movement from Wanna Buy A Watch, www.wannabuyawatch.com, in Los Angeles, CA. http://www.wannabuyawatch.com/indpages/31957.html
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