3,240 CHF
Large Black Dial Racing Chronograph Eberhard & Co. , La-Chaux-de-Fonds, movement No. 18324, case No. 1000623. Made circa 1930s. Fine and very rare, large, stainless steel “Staybrite” pocket watch with chronograph, 30-minute register, telemeter and tachometer. Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, flat band, co-axial button in the crown for the start/stop and return-tozero function of the chronograph, pusher-shaped slide at 2 o’clock for locking the chronograph. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, outer silver painted seconds divisions, telemeter scale and outermost tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register and seconds. Luminous skeleton hands. 15 ½’’’, rhodium-plated, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 56 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-10-04
