Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 23, 2012

LOT 6

MOVADO REF. 19038, CHRONOGRAPH, STEEL Movado, "Chronograph", case No. A100556, Ref. 19038. Made in the 1940s. Fine, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with roundbutton chronograph, registers and tachometer. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped inclined bezel, faceted lugs, screwed-down case back engraved G.R. Quaile, Pittsburgh PA. D. Silver with tritium Arabic numerals, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds minute and chronograph scale, outermost and inner spiral tachometer scale. Tritium coated blue steel baton hands. M. Cal. C 95 M, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 13 mm.