Important Collector's Wristwatches & ...

Grand Havana Room, Sep 22, 2004

LOT 303

Paul Ditisheim, La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Swiss, No. 27322. Produced for Vincent J. Panvini in the 1920s. Fine, thin, keyless, 14K gold dress watch.

C. Four-body, "demi-bassine", solid, polished, case back with blue enamel monogram, hinged gold cuvette. D. Off-white with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. 18''', rhodium plated, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to 5 positions and isochronism, blued steel flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed, movement also engraved "Grand Prix Paris 1900".Diam. 47 mm.