Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 420

Hermès Chromed Desk Compendium Hermès, Paris, the movement Swiss. Made circa 1940. Fine and rare, 8-day going, revolving chromed desk compendium with triple-date calendar, barometer, thermometer and compass. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, cube-form, chromed, flat and inclined bezels, compass on the top, the sides with dials for the barometer and thermometer (replaced), calendar with engraved days of the month and apertures for the days of the week and the months, revolving on a stepped square base. D. Matte silver with painted hour indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals, outer minute track. Blued steel circle and baton hands. M. Cal. 19???, matte gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed Hermès. Dim. 9.3 x 9.7 x 9.7 cm.