Important Collectors’ Wristwatches an...

Hôtel Plaza Athénée - Le Trianon, Sep 28, 2005

LOT 177

Gruen Watch Co., Cincinnati, Ohio and Bienne, Switzerland, ?Precision Extra?, No. 41826. Made for Henry Birks & Sons Limited, Canada, circa 1919. Very fine and rare, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold dress watch.

C. Four-body, "bassine", solid, polished, monogrammed case back, gold hinged cuvette dated ?Sept. 5th 1919?. D. White enamel with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. 17???, nickel, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic "chronometer" balance adjusted to all positions, isochronism and temperatures, blued steel Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator. Dial signed by the retailer, case and movement signed by ?Gruen Watch Co.? Diam. 47 mm.