Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 129

Chronometer Wempe, Chronometerwerke Glashütte I/SA, ?Chronometer?, No. 5593. Sold on December 14th, 2006. Very fine, large, curved tonneau-shaped, water-resistant, stainless steel chronometer wristwatch with twin-barrels providing 80- hour power-reserve and a stainless steel Wempe buckle. Accompanied by a Wempe certificate, chronometer certificate, and booklet. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, polished, curved lugs, transparent back with 4 screws, curved sapphire crystals. D. Matte silver with black painted Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel dauphine hands. M. Cal. CW1, tonneau-shaped, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, twin barrels, 23 jewels, some in screwed gold chatons, hand-engraved balance cock, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and with facility for moment of inertia adjustment, self-compensating flat balancespring, shock absorber, swan-neck micrometer regulator, hacking feature. Dial and movement signed. Dim. 37 x 45.5 mm. Thickness 10 mm