Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 625

HEUER DASHBOARD CLASSIC RALLY PAIR Heuer "Master-Time" & "Monte-Carlo", No. 19696 & No. 17421, retailed by Huber (Berlin). Made between 1958-1967. Two, fine, chromed dashboard clocks with center-seconds meantime 8-day going clock and a 60-second chronograph race timer with progressive 60-minute register and digital 12-hour register.

A) Two-body, circular on a square backplate drilled for mounting, reeded rotating bezel, large winding crown. B) Two-body, circular on a square backplate drilled for mounting, reeded rotating bezel, large winding crown for start/stop, button at 2 for reset, button at 11 for advancing the digital 12-hour register. A) Black with luminous Arabic numerals and baton indexes, outer minute track. Luminous lozenge hands. B) Black with luminous Arabic 60-minute numerals for the 60-minute register, outer minute track with fifths of a second divisions, aperture for the 12-hour register. Luminous arrow and baton hands. A) 18''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber index regulator, hack feature. B) 18''', rhodium-plated, 7 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator.