Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 159

Stainless Steel "Delphis" Chronoswiss, "Delphis", No. 1826, Ref. CH 1423. Made circa 2000. Fine and unusual, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with jump-hour and retrograde minute indication and a stainless steel Chronoswiss buckle.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down transparent case back, ribbed bezels, straight lugs with screwed bars, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloché silver, between 9 and 3 the retrograde 60 minutes, at 12 aperture for the jump hours graduated in 24 hours, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel double spade hands. M. Cal. CH 124, rhodium-plated, ?fausses cotes? and "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 11 mm.