Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 129

WAN WITT, PINK GOLD. Wan Witt, ?Extra Watch?, Ferrotex. Made in the 1950's. Fine, antimagnetic, 18 K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, tachometer and register.

C. Three body, solid, polished and brushed, lapidated lugs, inclined bezel, soft iron gilt metal antimagnetic protecting cap forming a Faraday cage, snap on case back. D. Silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, outer minute/seconds division, with every fi ve Arabic markers,outer blued tachometer scale, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds and 30 minutes register. Pink gold Alpha hands. M. Cal. L 248, copper colored, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating fl at balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed. Diam. 37.5 mm. Thickness. 11.5 mm.