Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, May 13, 2007

LOT 274

Yellow Gold ?Single Button Chronograph? Eberhard & Co., La Chaux-de-Fonds, No. 26648, case No. 1010532. Made in the 1940s. Very fine and large, 18K yellow gold gentleman`s wristwatch with olive-shaped button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, chronograph button at 2 and pusher-shaped lock at 4, downturned lugs. D. Black with painted silver Arabic indexes, outer minute/ seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions with silver Arabic five minute divisions, outermost tachometer graduation, sunk guilloché subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12- hour registers. Yellow gold ?éventail? hands. M. 15???, rhodiumplated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39.5 mm. Thickness 12.8 mm. Properrty of a Japanese Gentleman