Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 332

PAUL BUHRE, FABER TYPE Paul Buhré ?Faber type?, No. 224632. Made for the Russian Market, circa 1915. Very fine and rare, large, silver wristwatch with single button chronograph on the crown and register.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, mobile lugs, two crowns, the upper coaxial single button on the winding-crown is for start/stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph, the lower faux. D. White enamel with painted black Arabic numerals, 60-minute register dial at 12 o?clock. Blued steel spade hands. M. 18???, gilt brass, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed, numbered on the case. DIAM. 47 mm. THICKNESS 15 mm.