Various

Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection

Various

Sportex

No. 16520

An open-faced keyless lever chronograph watch with black dial circa 1932, together with four other watches

• Sportex: damascened nickel movement, lever escapement, bi-metallic compensation balance, precision regulation, signed and numbere Sportex, 16520, black dial, pointed baton numerals, outer white track for minutes/chronograph seconds, two subsidiary dials for constant seconds and 30-minute register, central white ‘Moderne’ hour and minute hands, central chronograph seconds, signed Sportex, silver case and cuvette, outside back engraved ‘Sportex, S.A., Premier Prix Observatoire Neuchâtel, 1932’, inside back signed Sportex, Swiss control marks and numbered 16520, 54 mm

• Accompanied by:

• Hunting cased Roskopf calibre watch with machine engraved lion to back, white dial with Roman numerals within blue roundels, 52 mm

• Hedy’s patent open-faced watch, gilded pin leer movement, plain balance, dial with green roundels and Roman numerals, marked to centre Brevet 25299, cast case back with racing horses, 54 mm

• Hebdomas 8-day open-faced watch, lever escapement, white dial with green Arabic roundel numerals, centre seconds, subsidiary dials for date and day in French, aperture below revealing the balance, Continental silver case, engine-turned back centred by vacant shield-shaped cartouche, back numbered 793598, 49 mm 

• Hebdomas ‘Arnex’ 8-day open-faced watch, gilded movement, lever escapement, compensation balance, white dial, oval chapter ring with black Arabic numerals, visible aperture beneath revealing the balance, cast case back with a huntsman and his dogs with a stag in the distance , 50mm