Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 14, 2017

LOT 528

BOVET REF. SP0298 SPORTSTER SAGUARO CHRONOGRAPH, PVD AND PINK GOLD Bovet Fleurier S.A., Genève, "Sportster," No. 00/100, case No. 009442, Ref. C 806. Sold in November 2007. Fine and unusual, asymmetric, self-winding, water-resistant, black PVD and 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, pulsometer, large date and a PVD Bovet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate of origin, instruction manual and Bovet service invoice in the amout of CHF 2'160 dated April 2017.

Three-body, polished, rounded polished band, polished inclined bezel, asymmetric Vendome-type lugs with screwed bars at 6, extended mobile geometrical-shaped pendant and winding crown at 12, transparent case back with 6 screws, round chronograph buttons at 11 and 1, sapphire crystals. Black with printed pink gold Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track, tachometer and pulsometer scales, subsidiary sunk dials for constant seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute register dials, double aperture for the date at 12. Pink gold skeletonized baton hour and minute hands and serpentine chronograph hand. Cal. 3839, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes, 28 jewels, straight- line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 22K gold rotor.