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I have a soft spot link and an eBay saved search for Gubelin watches. You should know them as a long-time retailer of Patek Philippe, but Gubelin is not all link about retailing Patek. The Lucerne-based brand also arranged the production of white-label products that are simply signed "Gubelin." The quality of these watches does vary a bit; at the highest end, Gubelin watches were made by Audemars Piguet, but even at the lower end they were link made by brands like Eterna.

The clutch system for the chronograph also uses a design unique to VC it's a lateral clutch mechanism but with a friction-coupled driving wheel. The idea link here is to offer the advantages of a friction-coupled vertical clutch that is no stuttering of the chronograph seconds hand when the user starts the chronograph while still link retaining the aesthetics of a link lateral clutch system.