Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 1

Bovet, case No. 15625. Produced in the 1940s. Fine, large 18k yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers and triple date.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, gilt metal cuvette, teardrop lugs. D. Champagne with painted gold Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduation for 1/5th seconds, outer most for the days of the month, apertures for the days of the week and the months. Gilt bâton hands. M. Cal. 13''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, Breguet balance spring. Dial signed, case numbered. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13 mm.