Chronographe Suisse Pink Gold - Fischer Dial Travel It has killer looks in

It has killer looks in a form-follows-function kind of way

Prior to this change (which occurred circa 1984)

and was the world's first wristwatch to incorporate a date function

these Auricoste models seem to be rarely  released from private collections

because these movements were the first of their kind

Chronographe Suisse Pink Gold - Fischer Dial Travel It has killer looks inThe original Chronographe Suisse which has no relation to any modern incarnation of the brand name was at one time a major parts supplier to a number of the big houses of Swiss watchmaking. Leading up to the quartz crisis of the late 1970s, which shuttered a tremendous percentage of the industry, Chronographe Suisse was manufacturing manual winding chronographs like this one for a number of retailers throughout Switzerland and greater Europe,