Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Apr 03, 2019

LOT 135

Art Deco dress-watch

HKD 26,000 - 31,200

EUR 2,900 - 3,500 / USD 3,400 - 4,000


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3-6

Good

Slightly oxidized

Movement: 3 *
Dial: 3-03

Good

HANDS Period

Brand Movado, La Chaux-de-Fonds

Year circa 1930

Calibre  11’’’ rhodium-plated, with going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic screw-balance and self-compensating Breguet hairspring

Case No. 14 888

Material 18K yellow gold and enamel

Diameter 47 mm.

Signature Dial, case and movement

Notes

Open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, thin Art Deco “couteau” (knife-edged) dress-watch, snap-on case-back; made for the Cuban market
Case-back engraved and black enamelled in champlevé with decoration of friezes
Movement based on the Swiss invention patent No. 34 976, delivered on 1st December, 1905, to Fabrique Movado, L. A. J. Ditesheim & frère, La Chaud-de-Fonds, for a “Coq de montre”