Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 128

Magnum Churchill Van der Bauwede, Automatic Chronograph. Made circa 2000. Fine, large, tonneau-shaped and curved, silver 800 wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, day and date and a Van der Bauwede deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original box and instruction booklet. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 screws, hexagonal-shaped winding-crown and buttons, sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, apertures for the day and date. Luminous steel lozenge hands. M. Cal. 35, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 40 x 48 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.