Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 237

"Chronograph" Movado, "Chronograph", case No. 499990, Ref. 9053. Made in the 1940s. Very fine, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel and lugs. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds chronograph scale and tachometer graduation. Yellow gold "baton" hands. M. Cal. C 95 M, rhodiumplated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case, and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 11 mm.