single button chronograph

single button chronograph

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Offered by Rocks and Clocks



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Important early single button chronograph wristwatch.

Concord, case No.47124. Made circa 1918. Fine and rare, early, 14K gold wristwatch with single button chronograph register.
Polished, curved bezel and band, hinged single mobile lugs, hinged back. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with painted black and yellow Arabic numerals, outer minutes/fifths of a second division, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30 minute register black luminescent hands. Frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 32/36 mm. Thickness 11 mm.
Inscription on the outside of the hinged back: C.C.T.
Inscription on the inside of the hinged back: Mary Cornelia Carol Averell Roland Harriman 1898-1918 M.W.H.
Edward Harriman was an American railroad executive. Father to Mary Harriman and Averell Harriman, also two historically important figures.
Also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.H._Harriman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Harriman_Rumsey#Family_life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Averell_Harriman
Origin
Switserland
Period
1918
Material
14 carat yellow gold
Signature
Concord
Reference
100-18
Sizes
1.1 x 3.6 x 3.2 cm

Offered by

Rocks and Clocks

Molenstraat 3
2513BH Den Haag
The Netherlands

070-3220957
+31-6-26542775
http://www.rocksandclocks.nl

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