Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 194

Zenith, ?Chronograph, Automatic, El Primero?, case No. 017E664. Made in the 1970s. Fine, tonneau shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Zenith link bracelet with deployant clasp.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, dodecagonal bezel, hooded lugs, screwed-down case back and crown. D. Bi-color, matte red and silver with applied steel baton indexes, luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour registers, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous steel and black baton hands, blue luminous seconds register. M. Cal. 400, rhodium-plated, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 38 x 45 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Approx overall length 170 mm