18ct Vulcain Exactomatic

A solid eighteen carat yellow gold Vulcain Exactomatic. This is a very rare and high quality reference that is not a commonly found. This watch has the date complication at the three o'clock position, in itself not revolutionary for a watch from the 1950's. However, this is an early "quick set" date complication. The adding of a push button to the two o'clock position allows the rare, all red, date to be jumped through without having to move the time through twenty four hours to reach the date required. This heavy, screw back, automatic watch was a high end and expensive wrist watch from a brand that was very well known for its "Cricket: alarm model. The Exactomatic system, a patented 1946 innovation by Vulcain, was engineered to elevate the precision and dependability of their watches. By ingeniously modifying the Incabloc endstones, a core component of the watch's shock protection mechanism, the Exactomatic equalizes friction on the balance-wheel axis across all positions. As a resul