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Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 198

Yellow Gold ?Jump-Hour? Niton, Genève, No. 10340. Made in the 1920s. Very fine and elegant, rectangular, jumphour, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch.

HKD 150,000 - 200,000

USD 20,000 - 26,000 / EUR 15,000 - 20,000

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, gold screwed bars. D. Matte silver with painted Arabic numerals for the minutes and the seconds, aperture for the jump hour, minute hand on revolving disc. Blued steel second hands. M. Cal. 5711, 9''', stamped twice with the seal of Geneva Quality Mark, tonneau-shaped, rhodium plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever-escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with eight adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Movement signed, case numbered. Dim. 23 x 38 mm. Thickness 6 mm. Property of a Swiss Gentleman


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 4-7-01

Fair

Oxidized

HANDS Original

Notes

Designs for the Niton digital dials, dated 1928, are published in ?Wristwatches: History of a Century's Development? by Helmut Kahlert, Richard Muhe, and Gisbert L. Brunner, English Edition, 1986, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., p. 59. 198