Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 47

Pink Gold Single Button Chronograph Eberhard & Co., La Chaux-de-Fonds, case No. 1013854. Made in the 1940s. Very fine and rare, large, 18K pink goldwristwatchwith olive-shaped button chronograph, registers, telemeter and tachometer,with an 18K pink gold buckle.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, chronograph button at 2 and pusher-shaped lock at 4, downturned lugs, hinged gold bezel and case back. D. Black with applied pink gold dot indexes and Arabic 12, outer gilt minute/ seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions with radial Arabic five minute divisions, outermost tachometer and tachometer graduations, guilloche subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers. Pink gold baton hands. M. 15???, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39.5 mm. Thickness 13 mm.