Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 15, 2015

LOT 418

MYLIUS QUARTER-REPEATING WATCH YELLOW GOLD C. F. Mylius à Francfort, No. 154. Made circa 1820. Very fine, quarter-repeating, 18K gold pocket watch.

CHF 1,000 - 2,000

HKD 8,500 - 16,700 / USD 1,100 - 2,100

Sold: CHF 2,500

Four-body, Empire, engine-turned, slide at 1 for locking the repeating. Hinged gilt-metal cuvette. White enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute track, secured by a screw. Blued steel Breguet hands. 50 mm., matte gilt, full plate, the barrel under a separate bridge, repeat barrel under a polished steel plate, cylinder escapement, plain three-arm balance, flat balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2-8*

Very good

Slightly scratched

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-8-01

Very good

Slightly scratched

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 57 mm. Little is known of the watchmaker CARL FRIEDRICH MYLIUS although he was evidently a highly competent maker. His son, also called Carl Friedrich Mylius was a well known photographer in Frankfurt.