Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 10

Tissot, Swiss, No. 4946, case No. 1027392. Made in the 1930s. Fine and unusual, stainless steel "Staybrite" gentleman's wristwatch with oval button chronograph, register, tachometer, telemeter and pulsometer.

USD 500 - 1,000

EUR 400 - 800

Sold: USD 1,298

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, straight lapidated lugs. D. Matte silver with painted Roman numerals, subsidiary ?guilloché? seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation in black Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds scale, at the center telemeter graduations and spiral pulsometer scale. Blued steel "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 13''', gilt brass, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 14 mm. To be sold without reserve


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3-6**

Good

Slightly oxidized

Repair required, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-6-01

Good

Slightly oxidized

HANDS Original