$3,200
CUERVO Y SOBRINOS ‘ROBUSTO’ Cuervo Y Sobrinos, Habana. ‘Chronograph Robusto’, Ref.2859, Case No.32564. Made circa 2010 Fine, water-resistant, self-winding, stainless steel round-button chronograph wristwatch with day, date, month and lunar indicators, 30 minute and 12 hour registers, 44 hour power-reserve, with stainless steel Cuervo Y Sobrinos double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a large wooden humidor box with hygrometer, blank certificate, instructions, 125th anniversary booklet and setting pin within leather pouch. Two-body, polished and brushed, flat bezel, stepped lugs, glazed case back secured by 4 screws, sapphire crystal. Silvered with clous de Paris decoration, applied steel Breguet numerals, outer minutes, subsidiary dials for combined seconds and date, 30-minute register and month, 12-hour register and day, lunar indicator, Luminous tipped skeletonised sword hands. Cal. 2892/A2, rhodium-plated, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometric regulator, shock absorber. Dial, case and movements signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 15.5 mm. Donated by Cuervo Y Sobrinos Notes Cuervo Y Sobrinos Founded n 1882 in Havana, Cuba, Cuervo Y Sobrinos quickly became known as the “Pearl of the Caribbean”, atracting some of the most influential personalities of the 20th century, including Eleonora Duse, Clark Gable, Enrico Caruso, Winston Churchill, Pablo Neruda, Ernest Hemingway, and Albert Einstein. These n
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-20
