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New York, Dec 11, 2008

LOT 203

Coaxial Single Button Chronograph Hy. Moser & Cie, Monopoussoir, No. 176804. Made for the Russian market circa 1915. Very fine and very rare, large, 14K yellow gold wristwatch with single button chronograph on the crown, register, tachometer and the original strap with gold fittings.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, mobile lugs, hinged back, coaxial single button on the winding-crown is for start-stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph. D. Whimte enamel with painted black Breguet numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions with five second numerals, outermost red and black painted tachometer scale, 30-minute register dial at 12, subsidiary seconds at 6 o?clock. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 17???, rhodium-plated, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed, case numbered. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 13 mm.