Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 200

DUNHILL CHROMED & GILT DESK COMPENDIUM Dunhill. Made circa 1950. Fine and rare, 8-day going, revolving chromed and gilt-brass desk compendium with triple-date calendar, barometer, thermometer, compass and alarm.

C. Three-body, cube-form, chromed, fl at square gilt-brass bezels, compass on the top, the sides with dials for the barometer and thermometer, calendar with engraved days of the month and apertures for the days of the week and the months, revolving on a stepped square base with engraved inscription on one side. D. Matte silver with painted hour indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals, outer minute track. Blued steel baton hands. M. Cal. 19???, rhodium plated, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed Dunhill. Dim. 10.8 x 10.8 x 10.8 cm.