Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 242

ZENITH REF. 01.0500.400 EL PRIMERO CHRONOMETER AUTOMATIC STEEL Zenith, El Primero, Ref. 01.0500.400. Made in the 1990?s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, oval button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Zenith buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, guarantee and instruction booklet. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, stepped bezel, transparent snap-on case back, sapphire crystals. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 & 5. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 400, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 38 mm. THICKNESS 12 mm.