Importantes Montres de Collection

Geneva, May 15, 2011

LOT 122

Hermès Desk Compendium 5341 Hermès, Paris, the movement by Pontifa-Audoine, Swiss. Made circa 1940. Very fine and very rare, 8-day going, revolving gilt-brass desk compendium with triple-date calendar, barometer, thermometer, compass and alarm.

C. Three-body, cube-form, brushed copper-colored gilt brass, flat and inclined brushed bezels, compass on the top, the sides with dials for the barometer and thermometer, calendar with engraved days of the month and apertures for the days of the week and the months, revolving on a stepped square base. D. Matte sand-colored with painted hour indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals. Blued steel baton hands. M. Cal. 19???, rhodium-plated, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed Hermès, movement signed Pontifa-Audoine. Dim. 10.5 x 7.3 x 7.3 cm. Property of a French Collector