Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 23, 2012

LOT 337

BOVET REF. D819 WHITE GOLD SINGLE BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH Bovet Frères & Cie, Swiss, ?Monopoussoir,? case No. 008719, Ref. D819. Made in circa 2000. Fine and rare, 18K white gold wristwatch with single button chronograph, register, pulsometer and an 18K white gold deployant clasp.

C. Two-body, polished, stepped rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, fi xed central ?Vendome? type lug at 6 and hinged at 12, cabochon sapphire-set winding-crown with co-axial single chronograph button at 12. D. Ivory color with red baton indexes, outer pulsometer graduation and 1/5th seconds track with 5-seconds red Arabic markers, subsidiary guilloche seconds and 30-minute register dials. White gold serpentine hands with red arrows. M. Cal. 1822, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Height 11 mm.