Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 13, 2016

LOT 213

ORATOR EXTRA REF. 2300 CHRONO TRIPLE DATE 38MM PINK GOLD Orator, "Triple Date Calendar Chronograph," No. 21037, Ref. 2300. Made in the late 1950's. Fine and very rare, large, 18K pink gold wristwatch with chronograph, registers and triple date calendar.

Three-body, polished and brushed, large overhanging lugs, correctors on the band, snap- on case back. Pink with arabic and dot indexes, apertures for the days of the week and the months, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, outer ring with the days of the month in painted Arabic numerals. Steel feuille hands, red arrow hand for the date. Rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, blued steel flat balance spring.