Bucherer elegant assymetrical 18k solid yellow gold wristwatch. Beautiful piece of design with unique offset sweeping lugs c.1950's. The watch has a high quality manual wind movement signed Bucherer – Seventeen 17 Jewels, 3 Adjustments- Swiss movment. The inside caseback is stamped 18K - 0.750 with the Helvetia (Swiss) gold hallmark of a Greco-Roman woman in profile, signifying that this original case was also fabricated in Switzerland.The watch is triple signed Bucherer - BUCHERER below the 12 (with trademark company emblem) and further signed SWISS MADE below the 6 and adjusted to 3 positions. Stunning brushed silver pearl finish with incised gold hour indicators and original baton hands. This watch is complete with its 100% original royal blue hinged display box (signed Bucherer).
CONDITION: Everything about this watch is great. It has been serviced, runs strong and keep good time. The crytal and band are also in good condition.
SIZE: This cocktail watch measures 26mm lug to fancyh lug x 15mm in width and 16.5mm with crown.
Bucherer is one of the best known names in Europe, a company stands out from the rest, and is unquestionably the “premier” jeweler of the world. This title belongs to Carl F. Bucherer of Lucerne, Switzerland, in business since the turn of the 20th century and considered the Tiffany & Co of Switzerland. They are closely tied with Rolex, as they have collaborated, and also sell more Rolex watches than any other retailer in the world.
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I am a university research professor with an eye for detail. I have never seen any vendor with your level of exquisite scholarship. Just like your fine objets d'art, your descriptions are crafted with masterful finesse; it is such a pleasure reading them and it is also a great learning experience. Thanks again! Patrick
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Downsizing was inevitable and I've done it several times already. This is the big one, and I am still unboxing treasures retrieved from storage after decades.
All pieces are one of a kind handpicked by yours truly over 40 years to add texture, style and story to your authentic style.
My collecting story starts after watching Astaire and Rogers float across a dance floor as a young girl, I have loved art deco design, art, fashion and jewelry. So bold and beautiful, and so different from anything that came before it. Art deco changed social and design sensibilities forever. A lifetime collector of high quality antiques and vintage, I started by making contacts, researching and learning. Picking the best of the best, I live with art deco and vintage decor and used to wear the fashions of the day. To say that I feel in love is an understatement. I reveled in the fact that I was able to reflect my unique style and sensibilities with a marriage of old and new.
Since I was in my teens I have bought what pleases me, what I find beautiful and unique, and the things that speak to me on a creative level. I hope that you can see and feel the passion and love that I feel for antiques and vintage pieces and share with you. You will find art deco, collectible and vintage fine art paintings, original illustrations and magazine covers, home decor, marble, alabaster and metal lamps, nude flapper table lamps, sterling silver decorative accents and tableware for the home and entertaining, designer and estate jewelry and fine vintage watches in my shop.