Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 434

EUROPEAN WATCH & CLOCK CO. INC. ? SILVER SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH European Watch & Clock Co. Inc., case No. 19903. Made circa 1920. Very fine and very rare, silver and gold pocket watch with splitseconds chronograph and progressive 30-minute register.

CHF 3,500 - 5,500

USD 3,700 - 6,000 / EUR 3,000 - 4,500

C. Three-body, bassine, polished, curved bezel, gold button at 11 for the split-seconds, co-axial button in the crown for start/stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph, snap-on back with gold thumb-piece. D. White enamel with bold radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with Arabic fi ve-minute numerals, outermost fi fths of a second divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the progressive 30-minute register. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 19???, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, visible steel chronograph work. Movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 51 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Lot 434: Split-seconds dress watches by the European Watch & Clock Co. Inc. are extremely rare and were made in very small numbers in the early 1920's, most of those were made for Cartier and indeed the present watch quite naturally has the appearance of a Cartier watch.