Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 58

BOVET GOLD TACHOMETER CHRONOGRAPH DRESS WATCH ? THREE TONE DIAL Bovet Freres & Co., sa, swiss, case no. 1000224. Made circa 1930. Very fine and unusual, keyless, 18K yellow gold dress watch with chronograph, tachometer, instantaneous 30-minute register and chronograph short-pause feature.

CHF 1,000 - 2,000

USD 1,000 - 2,000 / EUR 800 - 1,600

Sold: CHF 3,000

C. Three-body, demi-bassine, polished, button at 11 for start/stop and return-to-zero function of the chronograph, button at 1 for pausing the chronograph hand for short periods. D. Three-tone silver with black Arabic numerals and baton indexes, outer seconds and fifths of a second divisions with Arabic five-second numerals, outermost blue tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel baton hands. M. 14 ½ ???, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, uncut bimetallic compensation balance, index regulator, chronograph wheel above the seconds wheel mounted with a blued steel spring for correcting the chronograph pause. Dial, case and movement signed. DiaM. 47 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

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

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

the chronograph function in the present watch has the abilty to be paused momentarily for a few seconds by depressing and holding down the button at 1 o?clock. when the button is released the chronograph hand corrects itself by the number of seconds paused.