Sold for:
2,760 CHF
2,760 CHF
Hermès, Paris, made by Henry Moser & Cie,Le Locle - Saint Petersburg, Swiss, circa 1920. Fine and highly unusual Otomato silver crocodile covered keyless purse watch with spring loaded sliding shutters. Silver rectangular, crocodile covered, with engine-turned shutters and polished thumb bars. Silver with Arabic numerals and sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. Notes Based on the same principal as the celebrated Ermeto purse watches, produced by Movado, this watch is wound each time the shutters open and close by depressing the thumb bars.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1999-10-23
