100 Years of Wristwatches

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Nov 19, 2000

LOT 39

Hausmann & Co., Roma, produced in the1920's.Very fine large 18K yellow gold gentleman'swristwatch with single button chronographon the 6, register and tachometer.

C. three-body, solid, polished, hinged caseback, mobile central wire lugs. D. white enamelwith painted black Arabic numerals, auxiliaryseconds and 30 minutes register dials, at thecenter, spiral tachometric red scale. 'Spade'blued-steel hands. M. 17 1/2''' rhodium plated,17 jewels, lever escapement, cut bimetallicbalance, Breguet balance-spring, the olive-shapedsingle button on the lug is for start-stopand the return to zero of the chronograph hand.Signed on the dial, numbered on the case.Diam. 42 mm.