2,500 CHF
HAMILTON – PRESENTATION WATCH TO PRESIDENT BECHARA KHALIL EL KHOURY OF LEBANON Hamilton, U. S.A., No. H908562. Presented by Fareed N. Kiamie to President President Bechara Khalil El Khoury of Lebanon on December 25th, 1947. Fine and historically interesting, 14K yellow gold keyless pocket watch. Accompanied by the original Hamilton fitted box and Hamilton hang-tag. Three-body, polished, curved stepped bezel, the back inscribed "With Great Esteem and Gratitude to President Bechara Khalil El Khoury, Fareed N. Kiamie, December 25th, 1947". Brushed silver with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and dot indexes, engraved dot minute divisions, subsidiary seconds. Yellow gold alpha hands. Cal. 917, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Notes Bechara El Khoury (10 August 1890 – 11 January 1964) was the fi rst post-independence President of Lebanon, holding offi ce from 21 September 1943 to 18 September 1952, apart from an 11-day interruption (11–22 November) in 1943. He had previously served two brief terms as Prime Minister, from 5 May 1927 to 10 August 1928 and from 9 May to 11 October 1929. Khoury is remembered for his part in drawing up the National Pact, an agreement between Lebanon's Christian and Muslim leaders which forms the basis of the country's constitutional structure
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-11-11
