Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 12, 2013

LOT 351

MOVADO YELLOW GOLD CHRONOGRAPHE COMPTEUR Movado, Swiss, ?Chronographe Compteur?, case No. 222031. Made circa 1910. Fine, 18K yellow gold hunting cased, keyless pocket watch with chronograph, tachometer and instantaneous 30-minute register.

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, engine-turned with polished borders and band, the front cover with engraved central monogram, button in the band at 6 for start/stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the exhibition medals. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track with fifths of a second divisions, outer red and blue tachometer scale calculated for 1000 meters, sunk subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register. Gilt Louis XV hands. M. 18??, nickel plated, 20 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and cuvette signed. DIAM. 50.5 mm.