Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 12, 2012

LOT 31

BAUME & MERCIER CHRONOGRAPH MOON PHASE AND DATE STEEL & GOLD Baume & Mercier, Genève, No. 4257433, case No. 1453293, Ref. 6102. Made in the 1970s. Fine, astronomic, stainless steel and yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date, moon phases and a Baume & Mercier buckle. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs. D. Bicolor silver and champagne with applied yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, subsidiary dial for the date and moon phase. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. BM 1883, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 32 mm. Thickness: 13 mm.