VALJOUX 7734 | Legendary movement in vintage Breitling & Heuer, also affordable watches like ARVOR!

This video is supposed to be a love letter towards the Valjoux 7734 movement and all the small brand watch gems, which saw the light of day solely based on the affordability and robustness of that 3rd party offering. The shift from expensive column wheel chronographs towards the 7730 series with a simpler, much easier to produce cam-lever principle opened the door for affordable vintage pieces today, which also provide a level of serviceability due to the ubiquitous availability of spare parts. In this video, I want to present the history of the Valjoux 7734 series, its variants and show an exemplary watch with a unique design, this Arvor Chrono from the 70s and a plethora of other watches, that probably owe their existence to that movement. In turn, crazy niche designs were made possible and I would like to maybe spark your interest into this simpler, yet intriguing part of vintage watches! Picture sources in chronological order of appearance: Picture of “Eye on”-Logo from: www.simpsons.fandom.com Picture of the VENUS advertisement from: www.twobrokewatchsnobs.com Picture of the VENUS 188 movement from: www.urdelar.se Picture of the Valjoux 7730 movement from: www.thewatchspot.co.uk Picture of the Ebauches SA ad from: www.uhrenkosmos.de Logo of the ETA SA from: www.wikipedia.org Picture of the Breitling branded Valjoux 7730 from: www.robswatches.wordpress.com Picture of the FORTIS with the 7733 movement from: www.chrono24.de Picture of the HEUER with the 7736 movement from: www.dorotheum.com Picture of the MEMOSAIL with the 7737 movement from: www.birthyearwatches.com Picture of the El Primero advertisement from: www.quillandpad.com Picture of the HEUER Automatic advertisement from: www.armbanduhren-online.de Picture of the HAMILTON Chrono-matic advertisement from: www.iconeek.com Pictures of the various 7734 powered watch models (in chronological order as well): Roamer – www.ebay.de Cauny – www.lot-art.com Thermidor – www.barnebys.de LIP – www.catawiki.com Tanis – www.watchesulike.com Wakmann – www.watchworkspdx.com Arctos – www.ebay.de Elgin – www.pinterest.com Para – www.shpock.com Technos – www.timeline.watch Net – www.willhaben.at Dugena – www.catawiki.com Junghans – www.junghans-vintage.de Tissot – www.uhren-atelier24.de Vulcain – www.analogshift.com Breitling – www.lotsearch.com Heuer – www.bachmann-scher.de Picture of Alexandre Ducoudray from: www.chronomania.net Picture of the DIFOR variant from: www.chronostyle.fr Picture of the Astree variant from: www.catawiki.com Picture of the Breitling Datora from: www.lotsearch.com Picture of the Heuer Leonidas from: www.watch.de This video was not sponsored and the video footage stems (if not explicitly specified otherwise) solely from my own watch. Chapters: 0:00 History of the VALJOUX 773x series 3:40 7734 Watch Models 4:28 ARVOR Watches 6:40 Roulette Date & Movement Details 8:10 Price & Outro #valjoux #valjoux7734 #arvor