Tavannes Watch Co.

Tavannes

Brand Tavannes Watch Co., Tavannes (Bernese Jura) Model - Retailed by - Year circa 1935 Reference - Movement No. 14 897 Calibre manual-winding, 15 jewels Case No. 4 803 / 18 (by Manufacture Favre & Perret, La Chaux-de-Fonds) Material/s yellow gold (14-carat) Bracelet - Buckle - Dimensions Ø 45.8mm. Thickness 8.4 mm. Length - Weight 45gr. (approx.) Signature - Accessories - Tavannes Art Deco pocket watch, two-tone gilt dial; yellow gold (14-carat) Yellow gold (14-carat), open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, Art Deco dress-watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock. Case: three-piece, polished; triangular dome-shaped screwed bow. inside case-back engraved ‘An Rolf von Deinem Vater / am 18. 9. 1937’ (To Rolf from your father / on 18 September 1937). Dial: matt gold colour, two-tone, metal (one-piece), with black painted large gold colour rectangular-shaped indexes; external minute track divided five by five with black painted radiating lines; yellow gold ‘Moderne’ hands. Manual-winding, 15 jewels, rhodium-plated with ‘fausses côtes’ decoration,, going barrel, gold chatons (setting), straight-line lever escapement, monometallic compensated balance with poising screws, blued steel flat hairspring, polished steel index-regulator, adjusted Type of winding and time setting: winding and time-setting by the crown on the pendant.