Rare Vulcain Solo Tempo Watch – Salmon Dial – 1940s

Charming vintage Vulcain Solo Tempo, datable to the late 1940s. Its defining feature is the refined salmon dial, enriched with large black Roman numerals, small seconds at 6 o’clock and slim black hands, creating an elegant chromatic contrast typical of the watchmaking of the period.

• Brand: Vulcain
• Model: Solo Tempo
• Period: late 1940s 
• Movement: hand-wound mechanical
• Serial number: 1327731
• Case: metal with stainless steel case back and fixed lugs 
• Case diameter: 38.5 mm
• Dial: salmon. This tone, combined with the large Roman numerals and baton indices printed in glossy black, perfectly embodies the elegant, formal style of the immediate post-war years.
• Strap: Generic black leather 
• Buckle: Generic 
• Crown: Generic
• Condition: Used, like new 
• Case back: snap-on, engraved “Fond Acier Inoxydable”
• Indices: black Roman numerals and baton indices
• Hands: black hands in vintage style
• Seconds: subsidiary small seconds at 6 o’clock