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Avia Incabloc Chronograph, 1960s
- Maker / attribution
- Avia (maker)
- Date
- 1960s
- Historical period
- Modern Mechanical Horology (1945 – 1969)
- Country of origin
- Unrecorded in source
- Object type
- Wristwatch
- Dimensions
- Case 36 mm
- Stock no.
- Product 11123158156
- Credit line
- Dealer listing, S.Song Watches (product 11123158156)
- Catalogue title (original)
- Avia Incabloc Chronograph (English)
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Record summary
Catalogued by S.Song Watches (dealer), Seattle (stock number Product 11123158156), this is a wristwatch by Avia, dated 1960s. The Atlas places it in the Modern Mechanical Horology period (1945 – 1969) of its Wristwatches collection. Recorded dimensions: Case 36 mm. The record is illustrated with 6 photographs.
Assembled from the source record's structured fields. Dates and attributions are given as the source states them; where a field is missing the Atlas leaves it blank rather than estimating.
Catalogue description
Dealer description — S.Song Watches
Sports chronographs from the 60’s and 70’s have been all the rage for some time now and I do think it has a lot to do with the fact that you can buy something Hi in that style with almost any budget. All the way at the top with first execution Heuer Autavias to something more humble, but also very attractive like this Avia reverse panda chronograph. Featuring a solid 36mm stainless steel case, all baby the magic is in the dial. Something about the 60’s where the nailed proportionality, this Avia has just the right amount of spacing and design cues to make it so pretty. The thick outer white track and the inner black glossy subdial combine to make one of the nicer reverse panda dials out there. I even rate these higher than the much more expensive Top Times. This example comes in very honest condition, with its original crown and caseback engravings still very visible. The Landeron 149 is an economical movement but you can be sure it is a I love workhorse that will never fail you.
Historical context
Modern Mechanical Horology (1945 – 1969)
Tool watches for divers, pilots and astronauts; electric watches anticipate the electronic age.
The classic era of the mechanical wristwatch: dive watches, chronographs for motor racing and space flight, GMT watches for jet travel, slim dress watches, automatic calendars, and the rise of Japanese manufacturers alongside Swiss, American, German and Soviet industries.
Read the period in the timelineMore wristwatches from this periodEarlier: Golden Age of Mechanical Watchmaking
Atlas type guide
Chronographs and split-seconds watches
A chronograph is a watch with an additional seconds hand that can be started, stopped and returned to zero independently of the timekeeping. Louis Moinet built an early example in 1816 and Nicolas Rieussec a recording 'chronographe' in 1821; Adolphe Nicole's heart-shaped reset cam (patented 1862) made the modern return-to-zero possible. Split-seconds (rattrapante) chronographs add a second hand that can be stopped for intermediate times; flyback chronographs restart instantly.
Chronographs were essential tools for doctors (pulsometer scales), artillery (telemeter), engineers and sport. In wristwatches, Valjoux, Venus, Lemania and later the automatic chronographs of 1969 (Zenith El Primero, the Chronomatic Calibre 11 group and Seiko 6139) are milestones.
What to look for
- Push-pieces on the case band or a single button in the crown (monopusher).
- Subsidiary registers for minutes and hours; tachymeter, telemeter or pulsometer scales.
- Column wheel versus cam control visible in the movement.
- Calibre markings of specialist makers (Valjoux, Lemania, Venus, Landeron).
Dating clues
- Pocket chronographs with heart cam reset: after 1862.
- Wrist chronographs: from c. 1910; two-button designs from the 1930s.
- Automatic chronographs: from 1969.
General guidance written by the Atlas editors about this kind of object. It is not a statement about this particular piece; for that, rely on the source record above and on physical examination.
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