MK Personal Collection Rare Steel Mathey Tissot Valjoux 726 Chronograph Wristwatch Circa 1960's

MK Personal Collection The present lot is part of a larger privately held collection and is intended for exhibition purposes only. Rare Steel Massive Mathey Tissot Valjoux 726 Chronograph Wristwatch Circa 1960's. The watch features a three piece steel case signed "Mathey Tissot ". It measures 44.00 x 47.00mm in length. The watch has a high grade Valjoux Swiss Cal 726 17 jewel gold plated chronograph movement signed (R) which is the Valjoux code for movement . The watch is in running condition but we would recommend an overhaul in order to keep accurate time. It is topped with a ultra rare exotic dial by Singer , two tone black and white design with triple registers accented with red highlights, 12 hour, 30 minute and constant 60 seconds. As you can see from the photos the watch is in overall excellent condition. If you are thinking that this watch looks similar to a Paul Newman Daytona, you would be correct. The dial was manufactured by Singer, the same company that made the legendary exotic dials for Rolex. The movement of this watch is based on the Valjoux 72, also like the early Rolex Daytona's. Mathey-Tissot, not to be confused with the firm Tissot, was founded in 1886 by Edmond Mathey-Tissot in Les Ponts-de-Martel, Switzerland, and specialized in complicated pocket watches. However, the firm soon began to manufacture high-quality chronograph movements. During the 1914 Kew Observatory competition, Mathey-Tissot entered six observatory chronometers with split seconds timing, which all achieved a “Class A ‘ rating with the note that they were “especially good”. By World War I, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers commissioned Mathey-Tissot to provide them with precision chronographs. Breguet also looked to the firm in the 1950s, when it chose them to produce and assemble the now iconic Breguet Type XX chronographs that were used by the French navy.