Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 17, 2009

LOT 154

Bovet Frères Co., Swiss, case No. 341713. Made in the 1950s. Fine stainless steel wristwatch with square-button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, triangular curved lugs. D. Two-tone silver with painted black Arabic numerals, subsidiary sunk seconds and 30-minute register dials, inner spiral tachometer graduation in blue Arabic numerals, outer telemeter graduation in red and 1/5th seconds divisions with black Arabic 5-minute markers. Blued steel baton hands. M. Cal. 13 ''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dim. 34 mm. Thickness 13 mm.