Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Grand Havana Room, May 26, 2004

LOT 84

Gruen, 50th Anniversary, No. 167. Produced in 1924. Very fine and rare, pentagonal, keyless, 14K white gold and enamel, Art Deco watch with solid gold engraved movement.

C. Three-piece, solid, patented pentagonal shape, bezels in champlevé black enamel forming a geometrical repeated pattern, band engraved with floral pattern. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals, outer minute track, sunk guilloché subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold "trefoil" hands. M. Cal. 17'''(37mm), 12K solid gold hand-engraved bridge caliber, 23 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature and mean time screws, adjuted to 8 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator, diamond endstones on escape wheel and balance wheel.Dial and movement signed.Diam. 46 mm.