Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 190

MOVADO BIKING STERLING NIELLO SILVER HUNTING CASED Movado, No. 27855, case No. 690146. Made circa 1920. Fine and rare, hunting cased, sterling silver, niello decorated keyless pocket watch,

Five-body, hinged case back decorated with niello-finished motor cycle scene, front cover decorated with a gold and silver niello-finished bicycle scene, hinged silver cuvette engraved with grand prix medals, band decorated in a floral pattern. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 16''', rhodium plated, checker board decoration, 15 jewels, straight- line lever escapement, monometallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, cuvette and movement signed.