Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 35

Type 20 J. Auricoste, ?Type 20?, movement No. 258287, case No. 802611, Ref. 5.099-54. Made in 1954. Fine, stainless steel aviator's wristwatch with ?retour en vol?, round button chronograph and register. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, bi-directional reeded revolving bezel, concave lugs, engraved snap-on case back. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outer minute and 1/5th second track, inner luminous triangular index rotating with the bezel. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. LWO 2040, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 14.5 mm.