Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Oct 15, 2006

LOT 148

"Split-Seconds Chronograph" Record Watch Co. Genève, "Split-Seconds Chronograph", case No. 738473, Ref. 10049. Made in the 1960s. Very fine stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with square button split-seconds chronograph, registers and tachometer scale.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, fancy lugs. D. Matte silver with painted luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary "guilloché" dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, minute and 1/5th second division, outer tachometer scale. Black gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 185, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, the push-button on the winding-crown is for start-stop and return-to-zero functions of the split-seconds chronograph. Dial and case signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.