Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 363

Tissot Tropical Chronograph Tissot, ?Chronograph?, movement No. 1749566/260469, case No. 1558740. Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, 14K yellow gold wristwatch, square button chronograph, registers with a gold-plated Tissot buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, inverted bezel, lyre lugs, snap-on case back. D. Color change with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 30 minute and 12 hour registers, outer 1/5 seconds/ minute divisions with every five Arabic numerals. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 27.4-H, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 12 mm.