Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 39

Heuer, ?Index Mobile?, case No. 3295, case No. 656. Made in the 1950s. Very fine 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button split-chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter with an 18K pink gold buckle. To be sold without reserve

CHF 5,500 - 6,500

USD 4,600 - 6,000 / EUR 3,100 - 4,000

Sold: CHF 3,120

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave bezel, lapidated lugs, snap-on case back. D. Two-tone, black and gray with painted dot indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, inner minute/seconds division with every five Arabic numerals, outer telemeter scale, outermost tachometer scale. Pink gold feuille hands. M. 14???, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator. Dial signed Heuer, movement signed Heuer Leonidas, case numbered. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13.5 mm. note: this watch was custom-made.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3-22-15*

Good

Later original

Slightly rusted

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-8-01

Good

Slightly scratched

HANDS Original