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Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 46

Yellow Gold Single Button Chronograph Eberhard & Co., La Chaux-de-Fonds, case No. 1021839. Made in the 1940s. Very fine and rare, large, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with olive-shaped button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter.

CHF 4,000 - 6,000

USD 3,700 - 5,500 / EUR 2,500 - 3,800

Sold: CHF 3,840

C. Three-body, polished, stepped bezel, concave lugs, hinged gold bezel and case back. D. Pink with painted black baton indexes, Arabic 6 and 12, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions with radial Arabic five minute divisions, outermost telemeter and inner concentric ?snail? tachometer graduations, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials. Blued steel baton hands. M. Cal. 15???, rhodium-plated, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balancespring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39.5 mm. Thickness 10.5 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

The Eberhard chronograph has a button at 2 for start, stop, and return to zero, and a button at 4 for locking the chronograph functions