Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 345

Large Racing Chronograph Eberhard & Co., La-Chaux-de-Fonds, movement No. 18556, case No. 1000694. Made in the 1930s. Fine and very rare, large, stainless steel ?Staybrite? pocket watch with chronograph, 30-minute register, telemeter and tachometer.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, flat band, co-axial button in the crown for the start/stop and return-to-zero function of the chronograph, pusher-shaped slide at 2 o?clock for locking the chronograph. d. Silver with painted Arabic numerals, outer silver painted seconds divisions, telemeter scale and outermost tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register and seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. m. 15 ½???, rhodium-plated, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 56 mm.