Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 247

?Pulsometer? Alto Watch Co., Swiss. ?Chronograph?. Made in the 1940s. Fine, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and pulsometer.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs. D. Matte silver with gold painted Arabic numerals and dots, ?guilloché? subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer scale. Pink gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 14 1/2"', rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, Breguet balance spring. Dial signed, case numbered. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 13 mm.