Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 201

Split-Seconds Chronograph Record Watch Co. Genève, "Split-Seconds Chronograph", case No. 14001, Ref. 7104. Made in the 1950's. Very fine, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button split-seconds chronograph, registers, date and moon phases.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, fluted lugs, stepped bezel, snap-on case back. D. Two-tone silver with applied pink gold pyramidal indexes, subsidiary guilloché dials for the date at 12, the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the moon phases, outer minute track with every five minute Arabic numerals. Pink gold baton hands. M. Cal. 185, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 20 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator the push-button on the winding-crown is for start-stop functions of the splitseconds chronograph. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness: 13 mm.