Prestigious Wristwatches

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 503

Hausmann & Co., Roma, No. 71469, produced in the 1930's.Very fine and rare, large, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with olive-shaped single button split-seconds chronograph, instantaneous register and tachometer.

CHF 16,000 - 19,000

USD 10,000 - 12,000

Sold: CHF 19,550

C. three-body, solid, polished, 18K gold cuvette, mobile wire lugs, oval single push-piece on the band to activate the chronograph, coaxial round button on the winding-crown for the start-stop and return to zero function of the split-seconds hand.D. white enamel with painted radium-coated Arabic numerals, auxiliary seconds and 30 minutes register dials, at the center, spiral tachometric scale in red painting. "Skeleton" radium-coated hands. M. Reconvilier Valjoux, No. 73456, 17''' rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 22 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator.Dial and case signed, movement by .Diam. 46 mm.


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Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

A similar watch is published in "I Signori del Tempo", by Giampiero Negretti and Franco Nencini, 1986 Edition, pages 305 and 306.HausmannFor over 200 years, Hausmann has marked the time in Rome. Founded in 1794 by Ernst Hausmann, a young German clockmaker who, with his friend and partner Hermann Frielingsdorf, gave its patent letters of nobility to the art of clockmaking in Rome. Situated in the historical center, Hausmann still inhabits the same elegant premises as those where they moved to in 1891 and where generations of Hausmanns and Frielingsdorfs have welcomed their faithful clientele. The firm represents the most prestigios name in clocks and watches and has a famous technical assistance laboratory, an irreplaceable reference point for worldwide collectors and is responsible for the maintenance of the precious clocks in the drawing-rooms and apartments of the Santa Sede.