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New York, Jun 18, 2008

LOT 373

El Primero Zenith Chronograph Automatic El Primero?, Ref. 487 D 784. Made in the 1960?s. Fine and very rare, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and date.

C. Two-body, polished, overhanging flat bezel, central lugs, screwed-down case back. D. Tricolor silver, champagne and black with luminous square indexes, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions on a black reserve, most outer silver disc with tachometer scale, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 3019, rhodium-plated, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Rotor signed Movado. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 11.5 mm.