The Mondani Collection of Rolex Wrist...

Geneva, May 14, 2006

LOT 647

?Split-Seconds Chronograph? Eberhard & Co., La Chaux-de-Fonds, Swizerland, No. 17467, case No. 1014175. Made in the 1930s. Very fine, oversized, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with olive-shaped and co-axial button split-second chronograph, registers and tachometer.

CHF 22,000 - 30,000

EUR 14,000 - 20,000 / USD 17,000 - 23,000

C. Three-body, solid, polished, hinged case back and stepped bezel, concave lugs. D. Brushed silver with painted Arabic numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions with Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, concentric tachometer graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hours and 30-minute registers. Blued steel ?Epee? hands. M. 16''' rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating Breguet balance-spring, index regulator, the coaxial single button on the winding-crown is for start-stop and return to zero functions of the split-second chronograph hand. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 15 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-34-01

Good

Restored by the manufacture

HANDS Original

Notes

Eberhard created in 1935, the double chronograph (split-seconds) which could be stopped and restarted on request without returning to zero.