VINTAGE MINERVA RATTRAPANTE, SPLIT SECOND, SWISS MADE VALJOUX 57 STOPWATCH Heuer

Description

THIS IS AN
EXQUISITE
TIMEKEEPER
IN TRULY
EXCEPTIONAL
CONDITION
.
A
TOP
OF
THE
LINE
CHRONOMETER FROM THE FAMOUS
MINERVA WATCH SA
COMPANY FOUNDED INITIALLY IN 1858 AS CHARLES et HYPPOLITE ROBERT.  IN 2006 THE
RICHEMONT GROUP
PURCHASED THE COMPANY AND STARTED THE PRODUCTION OF
MONTEBLANC
TIMEPIECES.
PLEASE SEE ALL 9 PHOTOS.
IMPORTANTLY, this is a "
R
attrapante"
chronometer, This roughly translates
from
French
to “catch up”
and is a
chronograph movement
with an additional seconds hand for the chronograph
function superimposed over the normal seconds hand and an additional pusher.
When
you depress the Crown (as you would to start a standard chronograph), both seconds
hands begin to rotate the circumference of the dial in synchrony.
When the extra pusher
is depressed, the additional seconds hand stops.
T
his records the timing of an event.
Press the third pusher again and the stopped seconds hand catches up to the other
seconds hand, which hasn’t stopped moving.  This allows the user to record multiple time
intervals that start at the same time but do not end together (example:
different lap
times
in a race
).  The Rattrapante chronograph is also sometimes referred to as a double
chronograph, split-second or Valjoux-57chronograph.
Simply put, they’re worth
seeking
out.
I
f you thought a regular chronograph was engaging to use, a double chronograph is,
well,  doubley so
.
MY COLLECTION OF STOPWATCHES AND CHRONOGRAPHS IS MAINLY FROM THE 50'S, 60'S,  70'S AND THE VERY EARLY 80'S WITH THE ONSET OF PLASTIC CASINGS AND, THEN, ELECTRONIC TIMING.  ALL ARE IN PROPER WORKING CONDITION AND MAY SHOW SIGNS OF PREVIOUS USAGE.
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LARGE
RANGE OF STOPWATCHES, STOPWATCH PANELS, GAUGES AND
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