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

LOT 463

?Disco Volante? Tissot, Swiss, case No. 877454. Made in the 1930s. Fine and unusual, stainless steel Staybrite gentleman's wristwatch with oval button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter.

CHF 3,000 - 4,000

EUR 2,000 - 2,500 / USD 2,500 - 3,300

Sold: CHF 15,340

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, stepped inclined bezel, hidden lugs. D. Black with applied Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary guilloché seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer 1/5th seconds scale and telemeter graduations and inner snail tachometer scale. Yellow gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 13''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance-spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 12 mm. From ?The Collection?


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3

Good

Dial: 3-6-7-01

Good

Slightly oxidized

Oxidized

HANDS Original