The Valjoux cam /lever movements were taken from the Venus 188 which became with some modifications, the Valjoux 7730, and it is the foundational platform for the entire 77xx series.


Originallu chronographs used wolfs tooth gears whcih changed to a colum wheel in the late 1800s. The cam/lever design came out int he mid 20th century and because of its lower cost (and neevr mind it was a lot harder to push) it became popular. The column wheels tended to brreak over time the cam lever - not so muych



"It’s been estimated that between the end of WWII and the onset of the Quartz Crisis in the 1970s there were as many as 500 different labels offering watches containing outsourced cam-shifting chronograph movements. Between watches housing the Venus 188, the Valjoux 7730, and comparable movements from Landeron and Lemania, millions of cam-shifting chronographs were sold during the post-war decades." - Allen Farmelo