Online Christmas Auction

Hong Kong, Dec 11, 2019

LOT 88

Technicum neuchâtelois, Ecole d’Horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds - Horological school, self-winding, centre-seconds, triple date à guichets (with apertures), moon phases; “Bidynator”; stainless steel

HKD 21,500 - 25,800

EUR 2,500 - 3,000 / USD 2,800 - 3,400 / CHF 2,800 - 3,400

Stainless steel, self-winding, round-shaped, horological school gentleman’s wristwatch, water-resistant with screwed case-back, centre-seconds and three horological complications: • Half-instantaneous date of the month (exterior graduation with central hand) • Day of the week (aperture at 11 o’clock; indications given in French) • Month of the year (aperture at 1 o’clock; indications given in French) • Phases of the moon (aperture at 6 o’clock)


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3 *
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Ecole d'horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds

Model made by R. Chapatte

Year circa 1950

Movement No. unnumbered

Case No. 1 144 / 21

Material stainless steel

Bracelet black leather strap

Buckle gilded metal buckle

Diameter 35.5 mm.

Caliber 11 ½ ’’’, lever escapement (based on Bidynator 693 ebauche by Felsa, Grenchen / Granges)

Signature dial and movement

Biography

Fallet, Estelle, & Simonin, Antoine, Dix écoles d’horlogerie suisses, chefs-d’oeuvre de savoir-faire, Neuchâtel, Editions Antoine Simonin, 2010 (568 pp.).