SOLVIL ET TITUS Vintage Chronograph cal. Valjoux 72 / 35mm

— Weight held in a small diameter —

A restrained 35mm case.

Yet within that small outline, the essence of the chronograph is concentrated.

Dressy bearing and functional beauty live together here, making this a model that stands apart even among vintage chronographs.

A chronograph concentrated into a small 35mm case. Fitted with the historic Cal. Valjoux 72, the calibre in the line of the manual-wind Rolex Daytona. Quiet dignity from a distinguished Swiss house. Dressy refinement and the functional beauty of a mechanical instrument in fine harmony. A masterpiece carrying the philosophy and advanced technique of pre-quartz Swiss watchmaking.

— Cal. Valjoux 72, a celebrated lineage —

Inside is Cal. Valjoux 72.

The name calls to mind the Paul Newman Daytona, refs. 6239, 6263 and 6265.

The beat of a movement people call great is alive in this Titus too.

A fine train of wheels still keeps an accurate rhythm across the decades.

— A brand named for a village —

"SOLVIL ET TITUS" means the village of Titus.

Founded in Switzerland in 1892, this was a quietly distinguished house that once made high-quality chronographs.

The place name held in the brand carries the original landscape of watchmaking into the present.

— Vintage that inherits a philosophy —

In the 1970s the quartz crisis shook the mechanical watch industry.

Solvil et Titus was swallowed by that wave too and was sold to Ebel and to a Hong Kong businessman.

The head office is in Hong Kong today, but the technique and philosophy once woven in Switzerland live quietly on inside this vintage chronograph.