Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 314

?Oversized Dress Watch? E. Gübelin, Lucerne, No. 96871, case No. 401541. Made in the 1930s. Very fine and unusual, large, thin, keyless, 18K yellow gold Art Deco dress watch with champagne 24-hour dial. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, solid, polished. D. Champagne with applied yellow gold Roman numerals, concentric 24 hours in Arabic numerals. Yellow gold ?épée? hands. M. Cal. 17''', rhodium-plated, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to temperatures and 2 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 56 mm.