3,840 CHF
Yellow Gold Single Button Chronograph Eberhard & Co. , La Chaux-de-Fonds, case No. 1021839. Made in the 1940s. Very fine and rare, large, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with olive-shaped button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter. Three-body, polished, stepped bezel, concave lugs, hinged gold bezel and case back. Pink with painted black baton indexes, Arabic 6 and 12, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions with radial Arabic five minute divisions, outermost telemeter and inner concentric “snail” tachometer graduations, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials. Blued steel baton hands. Cal. 15’’’, rhodium-plated, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balancespring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39.5 mm. Thickness 10.5 mm. Notes The Eberhard chronograph has a button at 2 for start, stop, and return to zero, and a button at 4 for locking the chronograph functions
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-16
