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New York, Nov 28, 2001

LOT 189

Agassiz, Swiss, No. 256689, circa 1920.Fine, 18K gold, keyless split-seconds chronograph watch with 30-minute register.

C. four-body, "bassine", polished, back with engraved initials, gold hinged cuvette. D. matte silvered, Arabic numerals, outer minute/seconds divisions with five minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds, minute register at 12 o'clock. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 37.6 mm, rhodium-plated, 22 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometric regulator, split-seconds mechanism set on the back.Signed on the dial and movement.Diam. 48 mm.