Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 239

Grieb & Benzinger ? Hand-Engraved Agassiz Movement Grieb & Benzinger, Schloss Dätzingen, Deutschland, Unikat No. 10, movement by Agassiz Watch Co., Swiss, No. 89125. Made in the 2000s. Fine and unusual, large, stainless steel wristwatch with hand-engraved exposed movement and a stainless steel double deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original Grieb & Benzinger box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, straight lugs with screwed bars, transparent screw-down back, sapphire crystals. D. The crystal with black baton hour indexes and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 18???, by Agassiz Watch Co., pink gilt and rhodium plated, entirely hand-engraved by Grieb & Benzinger, stamped twice with the seal of Geneva quality mark, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Crystal and case signed Grieb & Benzinger, movement signed Agassiz Watch Co. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 11 mm.