Collector’s Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

Grand Havana Room, New York, Mar 13, 2002

LOT 156

Thomas Engel, No 23, made for Zenith, No. 5537264. Produced circa 1983. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, keyless, astronomical ?Chronomètre pocket watch with phases of the moon, days of the week and special dial. 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 elaborate engine-turning, polished band and bezel, gold glazed cuvette, ball-type swiveling pendant acting as a winding device. D. Silver, regulator type, hour chapter with Roman numerals set to the left, days of the week to the right and subsidiary seconds, with aperture for phases of the moon at the bottom, center minutes with outer dot divisions, center and outermost ring engine-turned and whitened. ?Breguet? blued-steel hands. M. 40 mm, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating balance-spring with outer ter-minal curve, ?swan-neck? micrometric regulator. Dial signed with initials ?TE?. Case and movement engraved Zenith. Diam. 50 mm.