Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 85

Heuer, ?Cortina, Automatic, Chronograph?, case No. 342899, Ref. 110.233. Made in the 1970s. Fine, tonneau shaped, water resistant, self-winding, stainless steel wristwatch with registers, date and a stainless steel Heuer bracelet.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, concave bezel, hooded lugs, screwed down case back, crown at 9. D. Black with luminous white baton and square indexes, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute and 12-hour register, outer minute and 1/5th second divisions, aperture for the date. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 12, gilt, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micro-rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 39 x 44 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Approx overall length 175 mm.