Important Collectors' Wristwtches, Po...

New York, Sep 26, 2007

LOT 275

?Chronograph? Record Watch Co., Geneva, ?Chronograph?, case No. 772814, Ref. 257. Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, stainless steel and pink gold wristwatch with square-button chronograph, registers and triple date. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, teardrop lugs. D. Matte silver with applied steel Roman numerals and round indexes, subsidiary "guilloché" dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer black-painted Arabic numerals for the date, apertures for the days of the week and the months. Steel "baton" hands, red arrow for the date. M. Cal. 72, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 13 mm.