1950s stainless steel vintage Solvil Triple Calendar Chronograph watch

Date:           1950s

Case:            Stainless steel, 35mm

Movement: Valjoux 72c

Dial:             Silver, 3 subsidiary dials

Lugs:            18mm

A superb example of a Solvil Triple Date Chronograph watch from the 1950s!

A 1950s, steel vintage Solvil Triple Calendar Chronograph watch. The case measures 35 mm in diameter with 18mm lugs. The case is signed Solvil, Geneve, Swiss, Stainless Steel and numbered to the back. The Valjoux 72c manual wind movement is signed Solvil, Paul Ditisheim, Swiss with 17 jewels. The silvered dial has raised gold Arabic number 12, raised gilt dot hour markers, with three subsidiary dials recording hours, minutes and continuous seconds, outer date ring, month and day apertures and fine gilt hands with blue arrow-head date indicator. The dial is signed Solvil, Geneve above the centre.

Valjoux 72C

This popular movement, Valjoux 72c, was also used in full calendar watches known as Datora, Cato, Compax, Triple Date. The celebrated calibre Valjoux 72 movement was also used in the Heuer Autavia, Rolex Daytona, and many others. 

One of the most sought after chronograph movements of all time!

Paul Ditisheim was an illustrious watchmaker who dominated Swiss chronometry in the early 20th century. His life and work have been widely published, but little has been written about the companies he founded in Switzerland, and the links with the Solvil factory that later used his name