Important Collector's Wristwatches an...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 09, 1994
LOT 10
Universal Watch "Compur", 1930's. Very fine and rare, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with olive shaped button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter, first development of a multifunctional chronograph with two operational buttons.
CHF 5,000 - 6,000
Sold: CHF 8,280
C. polished, satined, central mobile lugs. D. white enamel with painted Arabic numerals + auxiliary seconds and 30 minutes register dials, outer telemeter graduation, at the centre, spiral tachometric scale. " Breguet" blued steel hands. M. 15"' gilt brass, 17 jewels, lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. In very good condition. Diam. 38 mm.
Notes
The first chronograph with double push-buttons
embodied a movement with two column wheels for the
motion of the chronograph's levers.