Important Watches, Collector's Wristw...

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Oct 13, 2001

LOT 281

G. Capt, "Chronographe Rattrapante", No. 2443. Produced in the 1950's.Very fine and rare, oversized, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with single button split-seconds chrono-graph and register.

C. three-body, polished. D. black with applied steel indexes, Arabic numerals and radium dots, auxiliary seconds and 30 minutes register dials, outer 1/5th second scale. "Dauphine" radium-coated steel hands. M. Cal. 14 1/4 ''', rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 17 jewels, gilt straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, the coaxial single button on the winding-crown is for start-stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph, thpush-button on the 2 is for stop and reunite of the split-second hand.Signed on the dial, numbered on the movement.Diam. 43 mm.