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Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 12, 2003

LOT 321

Movado, No. 49268, Ref. 159. Produced in the 1930's.Fine and rare, 18K yellow gold mid-sized wristwatch with single button chronograph on the crown andregister.

C.three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs. D. white enamel with painted Breguet numerals, sunk auxiliary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer 1/5th second scale. "Breguet" blued steel hands.M. 13''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance-spring, the single coaxial button on the winding-crown is for start-stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph.Dial and case signed, numbered on the movement.Diam. 29 mm.