Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 158

Platinum and Yellow Gold Dress Watch A L?Emeraude, Lausanne, Swiss, case No. 250420. Made circa 1925. Very fine and rare, thin, platinum and 18K yellow gold, keyless, Art Deco dress watch. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, brushed yellow gold with platinum band and bow, bezel and border with platinum fillets. D. Brushed silver, black champleve cubiste numerals, outer minute track. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 17''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed, case numbered. Diam. 47 mm.