Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...
Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009
LOT 254
Small Steel Single- Button Chronograph CAR, Swiss. Made in the 1930s. Fine and very unusual, mid-size stainless steel wristwatch with single-button chronograph, tachometer and telemeter. To be sold without reserve
HKD 10,000 - 17,000
USD 1,500 - 2,400 / EUR 1,000 - 1,700
Sold: HKD 8,400
C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rotating bezel, large mobile lugs, sliding button between 1 and 2 for the start/stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph. D. Matte silver with painted black Arabic numerals, outer tachometer scale, minutes and fifths of a second divisions, outermost orange seconds divisions and numerals on an off-white reserve rotating with the bezel, inner red telemeter scale, subsidiary seconds. Blue steel baton hands. M. Cal. 10 1/2???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed. Diam. 29 mm. Thickness 11 mm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: A |
Good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-9-01 |
Good Scratched HANDS Original |