Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 68

Wempe 125th Anniversary ?Flieger Chronograph? International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, ?Flieger Chronograph Perpetual Calendar?, No. 34. Made in a limited edition of 50 examples in 2003 to mark the 125th anniversary of WEMPE. Very rare and fine, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, 30-minute and 12-hour registers, secular perpetual calendar, moon phases and a stainless steel deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, sapphire crystal. D. Black with white Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds scale with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the days of the month and the week, apertures for the moon phases at 12 and for the 4-digit year display until 2499 at 8. Luminous steel "baton" hands. M. Cal. 79261, gilt brass, 39 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 16 mm. Property of a German Collector