Important Collectors' Wristwtches, Po...

New York, Sep 26, 2007

LOT 156

Yellow Gold ?Single Button Chronograph? Eberhard & Co., La Chaux-de-Fonds, "Chronographe,? No. 1914, case No. 196641. Made in the 1920s. Fine and rare, large, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with single oval-button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, gold hinged case back, mobile wire lugs. D. White enamel with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute and chronograph divisions, outermost red telemeter graduation, concentric spiral red tachometer graduation, sunk subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials. Blued steel ?spade? hands. M. Cal. 16''', nickel, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 11 mm.