Vulcain Cricket S2315A

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Vulcain Cricket S2315A

Vulcain S2315A Manual Wind
Vulcain Cricket echo chamber caseback
  • 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 an Italian climbing party summited K2 with Vulcain Crickets on their wrists
  • Multiple dial variations
"The Cricket establishes your reputation as a man of supreme punctuality and infallible memory"

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