Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 208

ZENITH ?EL PRIMERO 400? Zenith, "El Primero, 400?, Ref. 19.0130.400. Made in the 1990's. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, oval button chronograph, registers and tachometer, and a stainless steel Zenith buckle.

C. Three body, solid, polished and brushed, curved lugs, unidirectional yellow gold bezel calibrated for the dive time, screw-down case back and crown, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone, blue and gold, with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and luminous dots, outer minute/seconds divisions, outer most tachometer scale, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous yellow gold dauphine hands. M. Cal. 400, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating fl at balance spring, shockabsorber. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 13 mm.