Split-Seconds Chronograph Record

Split-Seconds Chronograph Record, Geneve, “Split-Seconds Chronograph”. Made in the 1940s. Very fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button split-seconds chronograph, register, and tachometer. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, fluted lugs, snap-on case back. Two-tone matte silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and dot indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 45-minute register, outer minute and 1/5th second division with Arabic numerals, outermost blue tachometer scale. Pink gold baton hands. Cal. 179, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 20 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator, the push-button on the winding-crown is for startstop and return-to-zero functions of the split-seconds chronograph. Dial, case, and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness: 13 mm.