SABINA SUISSE Vintage Chronograph cal. Valjoux 7730 / Black Chrome Case

— A name standing in a fragment of history —

Sabina? Most people will never have heard of it.

One of the brands that has left no name in Swiss watch history.

The name Sabina was a trade brand used by Paul Virgile Mathez, a watch manufacturing company established in 1919.

Almost no documentation of it survives, and it lies quietly buried as a fragment of watch history.

And yet the Sabina watches that occasionally appear on the market carry high-quality construction and refined design, quietly showing a value spoken by the making rather than the name.

A watch from SABINA, a phantom trade brand buried in the darkness of Swiss watch history. Fitted with the manual chronograph Valjoux 7730, inheriting the bloodline of the celebrated Valjoux 72. A striking beauty of form from an asymmetric case in black chrome plating. Character drawn by paint lost over half a century, and by ageing. A scarce piece where high technique and sure construction say everything.

— The line of a great calibre: Valjoux 7730 —

The movement fitted here is the Valjoux 7730.

It is the successor to the once-celebrated Valjoux 72, inheriting its reliability and its design thinking.

— Why the years make it vintage —

The asymmetric case is black chrome plated, and after more than fifty years the exterior shows paint loss left behind by the collectors through whose hands it passed.

Making no attempt to hide its knocks, quietly accepting what the years have done: that is exactly what makes it vintage.

Even without a famous name, this is a watch where the quality of the making says everything.

— A certain trace, at your wrist —

It has no brightness about it, but it is a scarce example that lets you feel, at the wrist, the certainty left behind a forgotten name.