3,600 CHF
Vetta for Ferrari Vetta, Suisse, case No. 204441, Ref. 271127. Made in the 1950s. Fine, rare and large 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter. Accompanied by an 18k pink gold bracelet. Three-body, polished, concave lugs, caseback engraved with Ferrari logo. Silver with applied Arabic numerals and baton indexes, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outer tachometer and telemeter graduations, concentric 1/5th seconds divisions with 5-minute/second Arabic markers. Pink gold alpha hands. Cal. 23, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, blued steel flat balance spring. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Notes According to the consignor these Vetta chronographs were given to drivers that had won a race driving a Ferrari race car. It is interesting to note that in addition to the high quality engraving of the prancing Ferrari horse on the watch back, the clasp is further inscribed : Grazie Ferrari
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-05-08