Collector’s Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

Grand Havana Room, New York, Mar 13, 2002

LOT 155

Thomas Engel, No 22, made for Zenith, No. 5537592. Produced circa 1983. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, keyless, astronomical ?Chronomètre? pocket watch with phases of the moon, thermometer and days of the week. Accompanied by a ?Bulletin de Marche? with ?especially good results?, a fitted box and certificate.

C. three-body, ?Empire?, screwed-down back cover decorated with engine-turning, polished band and bezel, gold glazed cuvette, ball-type swiveling pendant acting as a winding device. D. silver, Roman chapters, outer minute dot divisions, engine-turned and whitened center, subsidiary seconds, with an aperture for phases of the moon, thermometer sector at 9 o?clock, days of the week between 2 and 3 o?clock. ?Breguet? blued-steel hands. M. 40 mm, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapemnt, monometallic balance, self-compensating balance-spring with outer terminal curve, ?swan-neck? micrometric regulator. Dial and case signed. Movement engraved Zenith. Diam. 50 mm.