Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 43

Type 20 J. Auricoste, ?Type 20?, movement No. 802205, case No. 802435, Ref. 5.099-54. Made in 1954. Fine, stainless steel aviator's wristwatch with ?retour en vol?, round button chronograph and register. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, bi-directional reeded revolving bezel, concave lugs, snap-on case back. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outer minute and 1/5th second track, inner luminous triangular index rotating with the bezel. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. LWO 2040, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 14 mm.