VULCAIN –NAUTICAL Caliber ‘Vulcain Cricket Manufacture V-10’

 

VULCAIN – CRICKET NAUTICAL Caliber ‘Vulcain Cricket Manufacture V-10’ 2023

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 NEW CRICKET NAUTICAL
THE RINGING DIVER

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Following the launch of the Skindiver, Manufacture Vulcain continues to surprise and maintain the momentum on an upward trajectory, this time breaking the waves with the reissue of the Cricket Nautical – the legendary diving instrument first introduced over 60 years ago.

An aquatic cricket

In 1961, Vulcain could boast of being the only watch Manufactures to offer a diver’s watch equipped with an aquatic alarm – in other words, an alarm that could also be heard underwater. 

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Thanks to the ‘triple case back’ that acted as a resonance chamber, the Cricket Nautical reliably signaled when it was time to head back up. And it’s a performer on so many other levels, too. 

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The purists among scuba diving enthusiasts, fans of mental arithmetic and no-stop tables, will be partial to its functional possibilities; lovers of vintage timepieces, on the other hand, will surely take to its particular aesthetic.

Origin story

The Cricket Nautical was the fruit of research conducted by 3 experts who pooled their knowledge and experience and, together with Manufacture Vulcain, developed the very first diver's watch that would not only feature a system for determining no-stop dive times built right into the dial, but also sound a real alarm to signal the diver “time to get back to the surface!” – in a sleek package water-resistant to a depth of 300 meters. 

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The trio of passionate divers: Hannes Keller, a talented Swiss physicist/mathematician, occasional pianist, and deep-sea diving pioneer; Max-Yves Brandily, explorer and filmmaker; and Arthur Droz, a national certified diving instructor and representative of the C.I.A.S (Centre d'Investigations et d'Activités Sous-Marines – Center for Underwater Investigations and Activities).

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Here, Vulcain would like to pay tribute to Hannes Keller, who passed away last year, on 25 December 2022. On November 3, 1966, in Toulon, France, he reached the abyssal depth of almost 250 meters with a Cricket Nautical on his wrist. The record was witnessed and validated by none other than Jacques Cousteau, already a legend by then.

More than a diving watch, a diving instrument

Like its forebear, the Cricket Nautical stands out with ample dimensions for its time, the diameter of 42mm making it easy to use the watch and read the dial indications underwater. 

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Two superimposed dials – one fixed and the other rotating, adjustable with a dedicated crown at 4 o'clock – serve to determine decompression times. 

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Depending on the dive duration and depth set on the dials, the rectangular aperture displays the stop times required at the typical depths of 9, 6 and 3 meters when ascending back to the surface after an extended underwater excursion.

A full dive log

This is not the first Cricket Nautical. It's been on quite a few dives since 1961! To celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2011, the Vulcain Manufacture Le Locle produced a limited edition of 1961 pieces,  identical to the original model but taking advantage of modern technological advances to improve robustness and reliability.

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Just over a decade later, for its 60th anniversary, the new Cricket Nautical, equipped for the first time with a sapphire crystal, retains the same charisma. It comes in two versions, both faithful as ever to the original Nautical: 

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⦁    Black dial, faux-patina indexes and hands;
emerald green minute track

⦁    Black dial, white Super-LumiNova® hour markers and hands.
lagoon blue minute track

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Not least, the Vulcain Cricket Manufacture V-10 caliber underscores the new Cricket Nautical’s resolutely vintage character, a true tribute to the pioneering days of diving. 

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS


Model:  NAUTICAL Caliber ‘Vulcain Cricket Manufacture V-10’
 

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 Ref:  VUL-NA-007 - Calf leather strap

 Ref:  VUL-NA-008 - Carbon texture water proof strap

Case
316L stainless steel no plating, Acrylic lens 
Polished and brushed finishing case, open & closed caseback,
push-in crown, round pushers at 2H, crown for turnning inner ring at 4H
Diameter: 42.00 mm
Thickness: 17.35 mm
Crystal:  Sapphire, domed, with anti-reflective coating (or domed plexiglass version)
The ‘Triple Case Back’ acts as a resonance chamber, allowing the alarm function to be used underwater or in a sapphire crystal version embellished with the stylized Vulcain "V"
Dial
Semi-matte black dial with decompression tables
4 Hands with luminous
Movement 
VULCAIN MANUFACTURE Cricket V-10
Hand-wound alarm movement (12 lignes or 27.07mm in diameter),
Decoration:  Nickel-plated treatment, blued screws, skeleton ratchets (on sapphire case back version)
Double barrel, equipped with the Exactomatic system, 165 components, 25 jewels
Equipped with Exactomatic system, 48° angle of lift
Decoration: nickel coating, blued screws
Frequency:    18,000 vibrations/hour
Power reserve:  42 hours
Functions:
Hours, minutes, central seconds, alarm, fixeddial with decompression-table indication and
60-minute graduated rotating inner bezel ring activated by a screwlocked crown at 4 o’clock
Alarm duration: approx. 20 seconds
Strap
Black leather strap, water-resistant carbon texture 20x18mm
Steel pin buckle

🔴Public price • Starting at 4,200 CHF / 4,862 $ / 4,356,60 € 💰

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Press Release - 2023
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PRESS CONTACT
VULCAIN: Florie Maugeon
florie.maugeon@vulcain-watches.ch 

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