Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 26, 2013

LOT 24

BEDAT & CO REF. 768 SPILIT OF NO. 7 CHRONOGRAPH AUTOMATIC STEEL Bédat & Co., Genève, "Spilit of No. 7 Chronograph Automatic, No. 000010, case No. 0888, Ref. 768. Made circa 2000. Fine, large, cushion, water-resistant, self-winding stainless steel wristwatch with dart-shaped button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Bédat & Co. deployant clasp.

Three-body, polished and brushed, flared lugs, case back with 4 screws, sapphire crystal. Orange guilloché with painted radial Roman and Arabic numerals, inner minute track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5 o'clock. Luminous white baton and triangular hands. Cal. 2894-2, based ETA, rhodium-plated, "fausses cotes" and "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balancespring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed.