Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 15, 2015

LOT 75

ZENITH REF. SP 1205 EL PRIMERO CHRONO STEEL Zenith, "Chronograph, Automatic, El Primero," case No. 861D772, Ref. SP 1205. Made in the 1970s. Fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and tachometer.

Two-body, polished and brushed, flat bezel, lapidated lugs, screwed-down case back. Two-tone silver and black with applied steel luminous baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 30-minute and-12 hour registers, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer scale, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous white and black baton hands, red luminous seconds register. Cal. 3019 PHC, rhodium-plated, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator.