Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 161

Ebel - Twenty Dollar - Coin Watch Ebel Watch Co. Genève, ?Twenty Dollars 1904,? No. 588, case No. 896002. Made in the 1960s. Very fine, thin, 18K yellow gold wristwatch set in a U.S. 20 Dollar gold coin dated 1904.

C. Double case, coin opening with a push-piece concealed in the band, three-body hinged inner case. D. Matte silver with painted baton indexes and Arabic numerals. Black baton hands. M. Cal. 96, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted in 5 positions, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 4 mm.