Favre Leuba chronograph from the 1970’s with Valjoux 7750

Favre Leuba chronograph from the 1970’s with Valjoux 7750

Favre Leuba chronograph with round black dial with three sub-dials. At six o’clock, you have the sub-dial for the hours, seconds at 9 o’clock and minutes at 12 o’clock. Each hour is marked with a baton. The window for day and date is at 3 o’clock. The watch has white and red hands with stick design. It is a “Swiss Made” model. The watch comes with an outer tachymeter graduated up to 1000. It is a screwed back case with engraved outside “Favre Leuba – Geneve – 9101 – 49 – Water resistant – Incabloc – Automatic – All stainless steel – Antimagnetic – Swiss”. The watch has an automatic movement with caliber Valjoux 7750 and 25 jewels. The watch has a rubber band. 

History

The company was founded in 1737 by Abraham Favre in Le Locle. His son Henry Auguste, merged in 1814 with the watch dealer, A. Leuba. The company was taken back in 1970 by one Henry’s Favre descendant. The name of the company flourished in the 1950’s with their own automatic caliber called “Le Bivouac”, then came a manually winding model with altimeter in 1963 and the 1966 “Bathy 50” with a mechanical depth-gauge. In addition, in the 1960, Favre Leuba made itself known for its twin barreled movements, with both manually and automatic movements with caliber FL 1162. Both models “Twinmatic” and “Duomatic” used this caliber. In 1985, the company was sold to the Baccardi-Martini group.

Technical details

Automatic movement with caliber Valjoux 7750 with 25 jewels, 28,800 A/h and 48 hours of power reserve.

Measurements

Diameter excluding winding crown: 41mm
Length including lugs: 41mm