Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 12, 2013

LOT 118

MOSER CO-AXIAL SINGLE BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH Hy. Moser & Cie, Monopoussoir, No. 188516. Made for the Russian market circa 1915. Very fine and very rare, large, 14K yellow gold wristwatch with single button chronograph on the crown and register. Accompanied by a sales receipt from J. Pelkonen of Helsinki dated 1956.

C. Four-body, solid, polished, mobile lugs, hinged back, co-axial single button on the winding- crown for start-stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph, the interior of the back cover with engraved inscription. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with large Breguet numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions with five second numerals, 30-minute register dial at 12, subsidiary seconds at 6 o?clock. Blued steel skeleton hands. M. 17???, rhodium-plated, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and cuvette signed. DIAM. 44 mm. THICKNESS 14 mm.