Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 24, 2003

LOT 156

"Modernista", Courvoisier Frères, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Swiss, circa 1910, made for the South American market, for "Cigarillos Excelsior".Interesting, pink gold-filled, digital jumping-hour dress watch with retrograde minute hand.

C. four-body, "demi-bassine", back cover engine-turned in barley corn pattern, guilt hinged cuvette etched in Art Nouveau style. D. Gilt, engine-turned center, top with retrograde minute scale, aperture for the hours. M. 17''', rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, straight line lever escapement, bimetallic balance, flat balance spring, index regulator. Signed on the cuvette, stamped with the maker's mark inside back cover and on the dial.Diam. 50 mm.