Important Watches, Collector's Wrist...
Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2001
LOT 120
Hanhart, circa 1940.Fine, water-resistant, nickel-plated military wristwatch with single button chronograph and register.
HKD 8,000 - 10,000
USD 1,000 - 1,300
Sold: HKD 10,350
C. three-body, polished and brushed, stainless steel screwed-down case back. D. black with radium-coated Arabic numerals, sunk guilloché auxiliary seconds and 30 minutes register dials. "Skeleton" radium-coated white hands. M. 15 ''' rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, the single button on the 2 is for start-stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph.Signed on the dial.Diam. 40 mm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 4 |
Fair |
Movement: 4* |
Fair Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 1 |
As new |
Notes
The production of chronographs was intense in Germany in the 1940's. Beside the Glashütte watchmaking industry, there was Schwenningen am Neckar, where the Hanhart Company created a chronograph of high prestige, with one or two push-buttons.This type of single button chronograph was used by almost everyone, from the Wehrmacht to the Luftwaffe. But above all, the War Navy had the major use of this watch; they often marked the dials with the initials KM and the back with the Eagle. Over the M, was a number with three numerals which indicated the military corps. The cases were watertight with screwed back in polished stainless steel engraved: "Boden Edelstahl".