Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 414

Hermès World Time Travel DeSk Clock Hermès, the movement by Luxor, Swiss. No. 1005. Made in the 1960s. Fine, gilt-brass, 8-day going, world time travel desk clock with alarm and calendar. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, gilt-brass, circular, the bezel with day and night ring with 24-hour numerals, revolving world time ring engraved with the names of 66 world cities and countries, hinged ring strut. D. Brushed silvered with applied gilt conical indexes and baton quarter-hour indexes, aperture for the date. Gilt dauphine hands. M. 22???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed Hermès, movement signed Luxor. Diam. 7.6 cm.