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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Oct 13, 2001

LOT 644

Hausmann & Co., case No. 50860. Produced in the 1930's.Fine cushion-shaped, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with olive-shaped single button chronograph, instantaneous register and tachometer.

C. three-body, solid, polished, 18K gold cuvette, mobile wire lugs, oval single push-piece on the band to activate the chronograph. D. white enamel with painted radium-coated Arabic numerals, auxiliary seconds and 30 minutes register dials, at the center, spiral tachometric scale in red painting. "Skeleton" radium-coated hands. M. signed Hausmann, 13''' rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance-spring.Dial and movement signed, numbered on the case.Diam. 33 x 39 mm.