Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 09, 2014

LOT 172

IMEXAL WORLD TIME 8 DAY DESK CLOCK Imexal, Swiss. Made in the 1970s. Fine and unusual, world-time gilt brass desk clock with alarm function.

Circular, polished and brushed brass, domed crystal. Satine silver with applied brass Arabic numerals and baton indexes concentric 24-hour track, domed rotating center disc with world map and 24 world cities on the outer rim. Gilt baton and circular hands. Cal. 55 mm. rhodium-plated, fausses-cotes decoration, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring.