Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 237

SWISS PINK GOLD ANTIMAGNETIC CHRONOGRAPH "Chronographe Suisse Antimagnetic", No. 304. Made in the 1940s. Fine, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square-button chronograph, register, telemeter and tachometer scales.

CHF 1,000 - 2,000

HKD 8,000 - 16,000 / USD 1,100 - 2,100

Sold: CHF 3,750

Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, flat band, concave lugs, snap-on back. Metal cuvette. Silver with gilt Arabic numerals and circular indexes, outer minutes and fifths of a second track concentric with red 0-20 telemetric scale and outermost blue 1000-60 km/h tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Pink gold feuille hands. Cal. 13''', matte gilt, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator.

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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 1

As new

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial signed "Chronographe Suisse Antimagnetic". DIAM. 37.5 mm. THICKNESS 12 mm.