Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 313

"Chinese Lantern Lapel Watch" Rolex, Genève, "Chinese Lantern Lapel Watch". Made in the 1960s. Very fine, rare and important, keyless, diamond, sapphire, citrine and ruby-set 18K yellow gold lady's form watch set on a brooch.

C. Double-body, designed as a Chinese lantern with 2 blue enamel panels decorated with red Chinese characters, set with diamonds, sapphires, rubies, lapis and citrines, hinged two-body inner case for the watch. D. Champagne with applied yellow gold round indexes and painted Roman numerals. Yellow gold and black "baton" hands. M. Cal. 282, rhodium-plated, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Inner case diam. 17 mm. Dim. 39 x 62 mm. Thickness 19 mm.