Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 7

Aero Watch ? New Old Stock Dress Watch ? The Shoot Aero Watch, Neuchatel, Swiss, case No. 10480 . Made in the 1960s. Fine, 18K gold, keyless pocket watch with engraved case of a gamebird shoot.

C. Three-body, bassine, reeded bezels, polished band, the back cover engraved with a scene of a gamebird shoot with a huntsman and hound in the foreground. D. White painted with black painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold and black painted fancy hands. M. 37 mm., gilt with oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 47 mm. New old stock