2,124 CHF
“8-Day Dashboard Clock” Léon Hatot, (ATO), Paul Garnier, “8 Jours”. Made circa 1939. Fine, and probably unique, military, black patinated brass, 8-day, water-resistant, center seconds, double cased dashboard clock with bezel winding and hand-setting. Outer: two body, black patinated brass, three holes for securing to the dashboard, screwed-down top with milled edge. Inner: two-body, secured to the outer case by four posts and nuts, glazed milled-edge bezel rotating for the winding and hand-setting via a lever in the side. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, outer minute track intersected by 24-hour numerals. Luminous white hands. 44 mm., Cal. 4000, 13 jewels, rhodium-plated, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, special alloy flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed. Diam. 12 cm. Property of a French Gentleman
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
