109th Auction
2023/11/18
Lot 363
JunghansTop Timer
A very attractive, unworn vintage wristwatch with alarm, day and date indicator, original box and original sales tag - new old stock -
Sold
estimated
900—2.000 €
Price realized
1.700 €
specific features
Case
Steel, screw back, sunburst finish, original buckle.
Dial
Colour gradient from night-blue to gre.
Movement
Automatic.
Cal.640.13 / AS 5008
Diam.36 x 43 mm
Circa1975
Ctry.Germany/Switzerland
The wrist alarm watch Top Timer was launched in the 1970s in two versions: The brown and gold version and this steel version with a blue and grey dial. The company chose to fit the watch with a foreign movement and selected a flagship movement: Calibre AS 5008 created by Adolph Schild in Grenchen/Switzerland, a movement consisting of 180 individual elements which had not only an alarm function but also other complications: The indications for day of the week and date operate with a quickset function. The stop-seconds function slows setting the watch accurately to an acoustic time signal.