Important Collectors’ Wristwatches an...

Hôtel Plaza Athénée - Le Trianon, Sep 28, 2005

LOT 152

Van der Bauwede, "Magnum Chronograph Churchill". Made circa 2000. Fine, large, tonneau-shaped and curved, silver 800 gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, day and date and a Van der Bauwede deployant clasp.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 screws, hexagonal-shaped winding-crown and buttons, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor "oeil-de-perdrix" decorated silver and black with Arabic numerals on a plain black reserve, luminous indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, apertures for the day and date. Luminous steel "lozenge" hands. M. Cal. 35, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 40 x 48 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.