Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 201

HERMÈS DESK COMPENDIUM WITH WEATHER STATION Hermès, Paris. Made in the 1970s in the style of Paul Dupré-Lafon. Fine, quartz, revolving gilt-brass, lacquered and leather desk compendium with calendar, barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, dual-date calendar and compass.

C. Multi-piece, cube-form, brushed gilt brass, fl at and inclined polished bezels, the sides brown lacquered, compass on the top, the sides with dials for the barometer, thermometer and hygrometer, revolving on a compressed leather square base. D. Brushed gilt with painted baton hour indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals, outer minute track, apertures for the date and days of the week. Black baton hands. M. With quartz standardization. Dial and case signed Hermès. Dim. 12.8 x 11.5 x 11.5 cm.