Charles Nicolet Chronograph

“The Nicoletta”  Charles Nicolet was founded in Tramelan Switzerland in 1916. At the beginning, watches were produced under the brand name “Charles Nicolet Tramelan” before switching to “Nicolet Watch”.  This watch is a chronograph which basically acted as a stopwatch before the time smartphones had been invented. On the outside of the dial you will see numbers from 1000 to 60 which is called a tachymeter scale. Back in the day, a tachymeter scale was used to measure how fast things were going. For example, lets say you were taking a car for a lap around a 1 mile track. When you start your lap you would start the chronograph function by pushing the button at 2 oclock. When you finished your lap you would then stop the chronograph using the same 2 oclock pusher. Whatever number the chronograph hand would fall on the tachymeter scale would represent your average speed for that lap. A useful feature needless to say! YEAR: 1940-1950 CASE: The 38mm solid 18kt gold case has seen a light