Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 12, 2012

LOT 34

HEUER SOLUNAR WITH TIDE INDICATION STEEL Heuer Solunar Automatic. Made in the 1960s. Fine and unusual, tonneau-shaped, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with indication of the low and high tides, day and date and two crowns. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, bidirectional revolving ridged bezel with graduated black and silver segments to indicate hours before and after high tide, the winding-crown at 2 is for winding, hand-setting and to change the day and the date, the crown at 4 activates a revolving diurnal and nocturnal inner ring bearing the days of two week. D. Midnight blue with luminous baton indexes, aperture for the day & date. Luminous baton hands. M. Cal. 2790-1, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed, case signed Heuer-Leonidas. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 13 mm.