Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 09, 2009

LOT 251

Eterna-Matic Chronograph Eterna-Matic, No. 4385397, case NO. 40500080, Ref. 684.2169.40. Made in the 1960's. Fine, self-winding, stainless steel and gold-plated wristwatch with day and date, round button chronograph, register, 24 hour indication and a gold-plated Eterna buckle.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, gold-plated bezel and buttons, straight lugs. D. White with embossed yellow gold round indexes, outer 1/5th second track and blue Arabic two-second/minute markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 24 hours, and the 12 hour registers, apertures for the days of the week and the date. Black feuille hands. M. Cal. 5100, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 15 mm.