Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 235

SWISS PINK GOLD ANTIMAGNETIC CHRONOGRAPH - NEW OLD STOCK "Chronographe Suisse, Non Magnetic", No. 218. Made in the 1940s. Fine, new old stock, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square-button chronograph, register, telemeter and tachometer scales.

Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, flat band, concave lugs, snap-on back. Metal cuvette. Two-tone gilt with gilt Arabic numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second track concentric with red 0-20 telemetric scale, outermost blue 1000-60 km/h tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Pink gold alpha hands. Cal. 13''', rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, index regulator.