Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 10, 2010

LOT 126

Nero Lemania, British Military Issued Split-Seconds Chronograph Admiralty Pattern 6482 Nero Lemania, Swiss, movement No. 1501107, issue No. 349/69. Made in 1969. Fine and unusual, chromed, keyless stopwatch with 60-second split-seconds chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, bassine, polished, nickel cuvette, the reverse with military designation 0552/521-6482, start/stop activation via crown with plastic capped split second button to the band. D. White with black Arabic 5 minute numerals, outer minute track with fifth of a second intervals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel hands with red split hand. M. Cal.1900, rhodium-plated, 11 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, split-seconds chronograph with visible work. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm.