Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 54

ZENITH DETENT CHRONOMETER Zenith, `Chronomètre`, movement no. 1157653, case no. 136627. Made circa 1910. Fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket chronometer with spring detent escapement. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, ?bassine et filet?, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Three-piece, white enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. M. 18???, rhodium plated, jeweled to the center, Earnshaw type detent chronometer escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overrcoil,micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. DiaM. 51 mm.