Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 180

Index Mobile Dubey & Schaldenbrand, "Index Mobile." Made in the 1970s. Fine, rare and unusual, pink gold-plated wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, overhanging concave lugs, co-axial split-chronograph button on the winding crown. D. Black with painted gold Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, outer 1/5th seconds scale, most outer tachometer and telemeter graduations, at the center the visible balance spring. Pink gold alpha hands. M. Cal. 13''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13 mm.