Vulcain Cricket S2315A
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Vulcain Cricket S2315A
- First alarm watch Cricket Model
- Manual Wind
- No Date
- Steel, gold plated with steel back, and solid gold cases versions
- Cal 120 features: a 17-jewel movement, 42 hour reserve, beating at 18,000vph.
- The watch hands can be set forwards.
- perforated double case back acts as an echo chamber and amplifies the sound
- Released 1947
- 1953: President Harry Truman received a Cricket as a gift from the White House Press Photographer’s Association
- In 1954 when an Italian climbing party summited K2 with Vulcain Crickets on their wrists
- Multiple dial variations