Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 24, 1999

LOT 223

Hanhart, circa 1940. Fine, water-resistant, nickel-silver military wristwatch with single button chronograph and register.

CHF 1,800 - 2,200

Sold: CHF 3,174

C. two body, polished, sand-finish, stainless steel screwed case back. D. black with radium-coated Arabic numerals, auxiliary seconds and 30 minutes register dials. "Skeleton" radium-coated hands. M. 15 "' rhodium plated, 17 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self compensating Breguet balance-spring, the single button on the 2 is for start-stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph. Signed on the dial, numbered on the case. Diam. 41 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 4-12

Fair

Worn
Movement: *4-5-6

Fair

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Poor

Slightly oxidized
Dial: 4-21-01

Fair

Period

HANDS Original

Notes

The production of chronographs was intense in Germany in the 1940's. Beside the Glashiitte watchmaking industry, there was Schwenningen am Nackar, where the Company I-Ianhart created a chronograph of high prestige, with one or two pushbuttons. This example of single button chronograph was used by almost everyone, from the Wehrmacht to the Luftwaffe. But above all, the War Navy had the major use of this watch; they often marked the dials with the initials KM and the back with the Eagle. Over the M, was a number with three digits which indicated the military corps. The cases were watertight with screwed back in polished stainless steel engraved: "Boden Edelstahl".