Swiss Made Perrelet Jumping Hour - Black Dial Automatic Men's Watch A1037/7

Watch features:

Silver-tone stainless 40mm steel case, fixed silver-tone stainless steel bezel with a black alligator leather strap with deployment buckle.  Black dial with silver-tone hands and index hour markers. 

Hours window at 12 o'clock position. Dial Type: Analog. One subdial displaying small second.  Perrelet Calibre P-191 Automatic movement, based upon ETA 2892, containing 27 Jewels, bitting at 28800 vph, and has a power reserve of approximately 42 hours. 

Scratch resistant sapphire crystal. Skeleton transparent exhibition see through case back. Round case shape, case size: 40 mm. 

Water resistant at 30 meters / 100 feet. Functions: jumping hour, minute, second. Jumping Hour Series. Dress watch style.

Complete with box, papers, and warranty details.

Value $6,350.00

Donation by Perrelet Watch Company

Abraham-Louis Perrelet was born in Neuchacirctel, Switzerland and was a renowned Swiss horologist. Perrelet invented a self-winding mechanism in 1770 for pocket watches. Perrelet's watch worked on the same principle as a modern wristwatch and was designed to wind as the owner walked, by using an oscillating weight inside the large watch that moved up and down. The Geneva Society of Arts reported in 1776 that only fifteen minutes of walking was necessary to wind the Perrelet wristwatch sufficiently for eight days, and the following year reported that it was selling well. Perrelet is thus widely acknowledged as the inventor of the basic movement known today as an AUTOMATIC (self-winding) movement.

Since 2007, following the appointment of Marc Bernhardt as CEO of Perrelet, and under his direction the company has released a few highly regarded watches. These include watches with retrograde, jumping hour, and double-rotor complications. Perrelet is today perhaps most well-known for its Turbine watches featuring a spinning rotor visible through the dial side of the watch.