====== Vulcain Cricket ======
{{wst>image_cr|Vulcain|Classic 1951|[[Vulcain Cricket Classic 1951]]}}

**Cricket** is a wristwatch range by [[Vulcain]] with [[alarm]] function (and also the name of the correspondent [[movement]] with [[alarm function]]).

When the [[Le Locle]] [[manufacture]] [[Vulcain]] invented the first distinctly audible [[wristalarm]] in [[1947]] and brought it to market, it excited attention with this world premiere. Back then the [[manufacture]] movement **Cricket** (Calibre [[Vulcain 120]]) used the natural resonance technique of the cricket By installing a second caseback a resonance membrane was created, which for the first time mechanically generated a very loud and long lasting alarm sound. This led to the name of the watch "Cricket".

The **Vulcain Cricket** was also known as "The President's Watch", because it was worn by many US Presidents - including Truman, Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson and Nixon - who appreciated it because of its useful additional [[complication]].

At times, the watch company [[Revue Thommen]] continued the tradition of Vulcain and used the movement with [[alarm]] function further on. After the company PMH had adopted the rights to Vulcain in [[2001]], again watches under the original name were produced.

Meanwhile Vulcain again manufactures Cricket models with alarm function, which still have the classic [[manual winding]] calibre [[Vulcain Cricket V10|Cricket V10]] or contain advanced successors. Thus, for example, the model [[Vulcain Cricket Classic 1951|Cricket Classic 1951]], which is inspired by the original watch.


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