Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 13

Swiss, case No. 788931. Made in the 1940s. Fine, tonneau-shaped, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph and register.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs. D. Matte silver with painted Arabic numerals, subsidiary ?guilloché? seconds and 45-minute register dials, outer 1/5th seconds scale. Blued steel "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 12''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring. Dial signed ?Switzerland?, case numbered. Diam. 31 mm. Thickness 13 mm. To be sold without reserve