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Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 40

Large Black Dial Racing Chronograph Eberhard & Co., La-Chaux-de-Fonds, movement No. 18324, case No. 1000623. Made circa 1930s. Fine and very rare, large, stainless steel ?Staybrite? pocket watch with chronograph, 30-minute register, telemeter and tachometer.

CHF 3,000 - 5,000

USD 2,800 - 4,700 / EUR 2,000 - 3,300

Sold: CHF 3,240

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, flat band, co-axial button in the crown for the start/stop and return-tozero function of the chronograph, pusher-shaped slide at 2 o?clock for locking the chronograph. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, outer silver painted seconds divisions, telemeter scale and outermost tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register and seconds. Luminous skeleton hands. M. 15 ½???, rhodium-plated, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 56 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-7-01

Good

Oxidized

HANDS Original