Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 11, 2014

LOT 14

DUBEY & SCHALDENBRAND, SPIRAL VERSO VIP Dubey & Schaldenbrand, "Spiral Verso VIP", No. 147. Made in the 2000's. Fine, left-handed, stainless steel, self-winding, water-resistant wristwatch with oval-button chronograph, vintage spiral spring, registers, triple date calendar, 24-hour indication, moon phases and a stainless steel Dubey & Schaldenbrand buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and blank guarantee.

Three-body, massive, polished, rounded bezel, central movable lugs, caseback with engraving "World Premiere", cabochon sapphire-set winding crown, sapphire crystal. Brushed, silvered, with applied blue round indexes, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 24-hour indication, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, apertures for the day of the week and the month, outermost blue date graduation. Luminous stainless steel hands, chronograph hand connected via a vintage blued steel spiral-coiled spring mounted on the cannon pinion pipe in the dial center. Hand-engraved gilt, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator.