Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 290

Bovet - SteeL - Chronograph Bovet Frères & Cie, Swiss, ?Mono-Rattrapante,? case No. 295801, Ref. 9642. Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and tachometer.

c. Three-body, polished and brushed, flat bezel, concave lugs. d. Copper-color with painted Arabic 12 and luminous baton indexes, subsidiary guilloche seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-seconds Arabic markers and tachometer graduation. Luminous blued steel baton hands. m. Cal. 4001, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial and movement signed, numbered on the case. Diam. 36 mm. Height 14 mm.