Important Watches

Geneva, Mar 20, 2010

LOT 384

Swiss, movement No. 19111, case No. 19132. Made circa 1915. Very fine, thin, keyless, 18K yellow gold dress watch with split-seconds chronograph and register.

C. Four body, demi-bassine, solid, polished, semi-concealed hinge, button at 11 for the split-seconds, button in the crown for the start/stop function of the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved inscription. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute track and fifths of a second divisions, red five-second numerals, subsidiary seconds and 60-minute register dials. Blued steel poire hands. M. Cal. 16 1/2''', rhodium plated, fausses côtes decoration, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator. Diam. 46 mm.