Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 44

Type 21 Dodane, Type 21, movement 9139, case No. 401178. Made circa 1955. Fine, water-resistant, stainless steel aviator?s wristwatch with ?retour en vol? round button chronograph and register. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, screwed down case back, bi-directional graduated revolving reeded bezel, lapidated lugs. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dial for the seconds and 30 minute register, outer minute and 1/5th second track with radial Arabic numerals. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. Valjoux 23, rhodium-plated, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance-spring, shock absorber. Dial signed, case numbered. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13 mm.