Sarda chronograph High Grade Valjoux 23

Very charismatic Sarda Besançon chronograph from the 1940s, featuring a 36 mm stepped steel case with a “High Pressure” snap-on caseback and a gilt black dial signed “Sarda Besançon,” with silvered Arabic numerals, twin subsidiary registers, a pulsometer scale inscribed “Gradué pour 30 Pulsations, Base 1000,” and a tachymeter scale on the outer flange. It is powered by the high-grade manual-winding Valjoux 23 caliber.