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Geneva, May 10, 2009

LOT 11

Movado, Switzerland, case No. 49038, Ref. 22. Made in the 1950s. Fine and rare, water-resistant, 14K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, lapidated lugs, screw-down case back, protective dust cover. D. Matte silver, applied yellow gold triangular and faceted indexes and Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers with serpentine hands, internal minutes and 1/5th seconds track with Arabic 5-minute/seconds numerals, external blue tachometer scale. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. 12???, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 2 positions, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 12 mm.