Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 12, 2013

LOT 69

HERMÈS BIG DESK COMPENDIUM Hermès, Paris, the movement by Pontifa- Audoine, Swiss. Made circa 1940. Very fine and very rare, 8-day going, revolving gilt-brass and leather desk compendium with triple-date calendar, barometer, thermometer and compass, probably designed by Paul Dupré-Lafon.

C. Three-body, cube-form, gilt brass, fl at and inclined bezels, compass on the top, the sides with dials for the barometer and thermometer, calendar with engraved days of the month and apertures for the days of the week and the months, revolving on a stepped compressed leather square base. D. Matte silvered with painted baton hour indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals. Blued steel baton hands. M. Cal. 22???, rhodium-plated, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and case signed Hermès, movement signed Pontifa- Audoine. DIM. 13.5 x 14 x 14 cm.