Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 121

Yellow Gold ?Mono-Poussoir? Universal Watch, case No. 525281. Made in the 1920s. Very fine and large, 18K gold gentleman's wristwatch with coaxial button chronograph on the crown, register, telemeter and tachometer.

C. Three-body, polished, inclined reeded bezel, straight lugs. D. White enamel with painted dauphine numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, inner spiral tachometric scale, outer telemeter scale. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. 12???, gilt brass, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, the coaxial single button on the winding crown is for start-stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33.5 mm. Thickness 11 mm.