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Technos Automatic Chronograph (Ref. 10767) Blue Dial, 1970s

DocumentedDocumented from a dealer's listing; attribution and date as stated by the dealer.
Maker / attribution
Technos (maker)
Date
1970s
Country of origin
Unrecorded in source
Object type
Wristwatch
Stock no.
TCHAC10767
Credit line
Dealer listing, Craft & Tailored (TCHAC10767)
Catalogue title (original)
1970s Technos Automatic Chronograph (Ref. 10767) Blue Dial (English)

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Record summary

Catalogued by Craft & Tailored (dealer), Los Angeles (stock number TCHAC10767), this is a wristwatch by Technos, dated 1970s. The Atlas places it in the Quartz Revolution period (1969 – 1990) of its Wristwatches collection. 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 — Craft & Tailored

For 80 years before being totally consumed by the Japanese market and almost lost all together to the infamous Quartz Crisis, Technos was a manufacture run by a family of watchmakers, with a history that went all the way back to the year 1900. In 1970 the company was sold to General Watch Co. and thankfully the train just kept on going, because we got a stunning stock of funky dive and racing style watches which we're still admiring 50 years later. Stock # TCHAC10767 Brand Technos Style Automatic Chronograph Model 10767 Serial N/A Size Men's Material Stainless Steel Dial Silver Millimeters 43 Bracelet CASE & BRACELET Technos went full futurism with this C-shape case design. In stainless steel, the watch measures 43-millimeters and features deep and dramatic bevels on the case sides that give the watch excellent dimensions. It features two pump pushers for the chronograph, an inset crown, and a screw-down case back. The original bracelet on the watch is perfectly designed for the piece, with a fantastic mix of thickness in the links and a nearly integrated look. The bracelet takes what is already an interesting and beautiful piece to an entirely new level. DIAL & HANDS The dial is a beautiful matte navy, surrounded by an off-white, sloped tachymeter scale. The inner section houses several satisfying complication registers and does it with more ease than watches 10x its cost. At 12 and 6 we have 30-minute and 12-hour chronograph registers respectively, while 9 o'clock features a beautifully minimal crosshair seconds register. The watch also showcases calendar complications in both day and date windows. With a final flourish, we get to the hands, a stunningly eclectic set of baton-style aged tritium sticks and a bright orange, lethally tapered seconds hand. ACCESSORIES None. The watch is functioning and keeping time, previous service history is unknown.

Historical context

Quartz Revolution (1969 – 1990)

Seiko's Astron begins mass quartz timekeeping; traditional industries contract sharply.

Quartz and digital watches transformed the market after 1969. Swiss employment collapsed, Japanese and Hong Kong production soared, and the Swatch (1983) helped the Swiss industry recover; mechanical watches survived as luxury goods.

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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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