Lot 340

Vulcain Watch Co.

Cricket-Nautical

A diver's legendary vintage wristwatch with alarm

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The Vulcain Cricket Nautical was launched in 1961 and is one of the rarest and most legendary diver’s watches ever. Only very few pieces have been offered on the market in recent years.
The watch was developed by Hannes Keller, Arthur Droz and Max-Yves Brandly. Keller - a mathematician and physicist - was an avid diver and studied the phenomenon of decompression to enable longer and deeper dives. He fitted the watch with integrated decompression tables and an alarm function to remind the diver to return to the surface.
This Vulcain Cricket Nautical watch is in excellent condition. The case is unpolished with crispy edges. With its decompression table in orange the dial is particularly outstanding. The luminous material in the hands, the hour markers and in the triangle of the rotating bezel are present and slightly darkened.