27,140 CHF
Staybrite Split-Seconds Chronograph Eberhard & Co. , La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, No. 19877, case No. 1000179. Made in the 1930s. Fine and rare, large, stainless steel “Staybrite” wristwatch with olive and co-axial button split-second chronograph, registers and tachometer. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped flat bezel, concave lugs, co-axial button in the crown for return-to-zero function. Brushed silver with painted baton indexes, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions with Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, concentric tachometer graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 30-minute and 12 hour registers. Blued steel baton hands. Notes In 1935, Eberhard created the double chronograph (split-seconds) which could be stopped and restarted as desired, without necessarily returning to zero.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-11-11
