Arnex Chronograph

Arnex.  Unless you grew up in far western Switzerland, you're likely unfamiliar with the name.   One of the exciting parts of vintage collecting is finding hidden gems.  Even though the watch world has gotten much smaller and easier to navigate, there are still unexplored corners that yield pleasant surprises.  All too often, attention is given to the brand name of a watch with little consideration going to the overall build quality, the movement and the design language.  In a nutshell, this is why Big Red Daytonas are trading at hundreds of thousands of dollars and rarer watches with the same movement and comparable build quality (think Universal Genève Compaxes) trade for tens.   Arnex suffers from the same plight, and if this were any other watch site and you were any other Joe Schmo, this watch might wither in obscurity.  But this is analog/shift.   Arnex is not a known brand in the States, but our European friends might have heard the name.  Like so many other brands from the 1960