Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 23

Nero Lemania, British Military Issued - Split-Seconds Chronograph - Admiralty Pattern 6482 Nero Lemania, Swiss, movement No. 1501107, issue No. 349/69. Made in 1969. Fine and unusual, chromed, keyless stopwatch with 60-second split-seconds chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, bassine, polished, nickel cuvette, case back engraved with military designation 0552/521-6482, start/stop activation via crown with plastic capped split second button on the band. D. White with outer 1/5th seconds track and black 5-seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel hands, red split-seconds hand. M. Cal.1900, rhodium-plated, 11 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 51 mm. Thickness 18 mm.