Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 13, 2016

LOT 255

SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH GOLD H. Meylan, Brassus, Swiss, No. 6874, case No. 49594. Made circa 1900 for the American market. Very fine and rare, keyless, 18K gold pocket watch with split- seconds chronograph.

CHF 500 - 1,000

HKD 4,000 - 8,000 / USD 500 - 1,000

Sold: CHF 1,375

Four-body, "bassine", solid, polished, co-axial crown for the start/stop and returnto- zero of the chronograph, button for the split-seconds at 11. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute and chronograph divisions with 5-minute red Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 18''', rhodium plated, "fausses cotes" decoration, 19 jewels, the center jewel in a screwed gold chaton, straight-line lever escapement, adjusted cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3-8

Good

Slightly scratched

Movement: 4-6*

Fair

Slightly oxidized

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 4-70-01

Fair

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Hairline

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial and movement signed, case numbered. DIAM. 48 mm.THICKNESS 15 mm.