Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 97

Flyback Schwarz Etienne, 1902, ?Chronograph, Flyback?, No. 25, Ref. 231503.Made circa 2006. Fine, large,water-resistant, self-winding, 18K white gold wristwatch, round button flyback chronograph, registers, big date and a stainless steel Schwarz Etienne buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, concave lugs with screw bars, transparent screw-down case back, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone guilloche offwhite, applied black Arabic numerals and dart luminous indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 30 minute, 12-hour register, outer minute 1/5th seconds division, double aperture for the date at 12. Luminous blackened steel lozenge hands. M. 13???, basec Valjoux 7750, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 28 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 15 mm.