Eberhard & Co, Ref. 1602 single-button chronograph minutes counter Calibre 65, (c.)1940

Brand Eberhard & Co., La Chaux-de-Fonds
Year circa 1940-1945
Reference 1602
Calibre 65, manual-winding, 17 jewels
Case No. 112 (by Manufacture Favre & Perret S.A., La Chaux-de-Fonds)
Material/s yellow gold (18-carat)
Bracelet leather strap
Buckle gilded metal pin-buckle
Dimensions Ø 39.1 mm.
44.5 x 39.1 mm.
Thickness 12.1 mm
Weight 43.5 gr. (approx.)
Signature dial, case and movement

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Eberhard & Co.
Ref. 1602, chronograph, minutes counter; yellow gold (18-carat)

Yellow gold (18-carat), manual-winding, round-shaped, large gentleman’s wristwatch, with subsidiary seconds at 9 o’clock and two horological complications:
• 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the single rectangular-shaped push-piece located on the case-band at 2 o’clock) with outer telemetric scale graduated for 1 000 metres
• Half-instantaneous 30-minute counter (subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock)

Case: three-piece, polished, snap-on case-back, polished crown.

Dial: silver colour, with applied suspended Arabic numerals (6-12) and radiating indexes; yellow gold “Dauphine” hands.

Movement: calibre 65 (based on Valjoux 65), manual-winding, 17 jewels.

The push-piece located on the case-band at 4 o'clock has no function; it is only used in the version with the split-seconds hand.

Elegant very fine FF
Rarity very rare RR
Case very good 8 / 10
Dial good 7 / 10
Movement very good 8 / 10
Expert opinion very good