Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 13, 2016

LOT 368

QUINTING "DOVE OF GENEVA" STEEL Quinting, Swiss, No. 57-09, Ref. QSL51P, "See-Through Chronograph Watch". Fine and heavy, water-resistant, stainless steel, "mystery" wristwatch with doves background, round button chronograph, registers, date, and a stainless steel Quinting deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box and certificate of authenticity and certificate of value.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with screws, signature on a white ring and number engraved, fluted band, sloped bezel, fluted curved lugs. Transparent, made of 10 ledges of sapphire crystal, bearing a white ring dial with painted indexes, auxiliary white ring dials for the seconds, the 12 hours and 30 minutes registers, outer graduation for the days of the month in gold painted Arabic numerals on a blue enameled outer ring. "Dauphine" steel hands. Invisible electrical movement, fixed under the outer ring dial, electromechanically driven balance. The outer sapphire crystal revolves by electric impulses with a frequency of 32768 Hz.