Important Watches, Collector's Wrist...

Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2001

LOT 189

Thomas Engel, No 22, made for Zenith No 5537592, circa 1983.Very fine and rare 18K gold, keyless, astronomical ?Chronomètre? pocket watch with phases of the moon, thermometer and days of the week, accompanied by a ?Bulletin de Marche? with ?especially good results?.

C. Three-body, ?Empire?, screw-down back cover decorated with engine-turning, polished band and bezel, gold, glazed cuvette, ball-type swiveling pendant acting also as a winding device. D. Silver, Roman chapters, outer minute dot divisions, engine-turned and whitened center, subsidiary seconds, with an aperture for phases of the moon, thermometer sector at 9 o'clock, days of the week between 2 and 3 o'clock. M. 40 mmø, rhodiumed, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapemnt, monometallic balance, self-compensating balance spring with outer terminal curve, "swan-neck" micrometric regulator.Signed on the dial, case and movement engraved Zenith.Diam. 50 mm.