Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 117

?Staybrite Chronograph? Ebel, retailed by Cronometro Garayalde, Argentina, case No. 21007, Ref. 51. Made in the 1950s. Fine, stainless steel "Staybrite" gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph and register. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs. D. Bicolor anthracite and black with painted Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds scale with 5 minute/second Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 45-minute register. Steel "baton" hands. M. Cal. 513, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Movement signed, case numbered, dial signed ?Cronometro Garayalde?. Diam. 32 mm. Thickness 13 mm.