Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 242

Tissot, ?Chronograph?, case No. 877368. Made circa 1940. Fine stainless steel wristwatch with oliveshaped button chronograph, register with telemeter and tachometer. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, mobile lugs, flat bezel, snap-on case back. D. Two-tone silver with painted black Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, inner 1/5 second/minute track, outer red telemeter scale, outermost blue tachometer scale. Blued steel baton hands. M. Cal. 453, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 11.5 mm. From the Collection of a Swiss Gentleman