17,700 CHF
Staybrite “Split-Seconds Chronograph” Eberhard & Co. , La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, No. 17213, case No. 1000023. Made in the 1930s. Fine and rare, large, stainless steel “Staybrite” wristwatch with olive and co-axial button split-second chronograph, register and tachometer. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, concave lugs. Matte silver with painted Arabic numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions with Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, concentric tachometer graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel “épée” hands. Notes In 1935, Eberhard created the double chronograph (split-seconds) which could be stopped and restarted as desired, without returning to zero.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-10-14
