Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 290

Military Style Pilot's Watch Excelsior Park, No. 229768. Made in the 1960s. Fine, oversize, stainless steel aviator?s wristwatch with rotating bezel, single-button chronograph and register.

c. Three-body, polished and brushed, bi-directional reeded bezel, concave lugs with screwed bars, screw-down case back, button in the large crown for start/stop and return-tozero functions of the chronograph. D. Matte black with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions. Luminous steel skeleton hands. m. 18???, rhodium-plated, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator, compartment for spares. Dial signed. Diam. 49 mm. Thickness 15 mm.