Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 11, 2014

LOT 60

OUDIN - SPLIT SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH Ch. Oudin à Paris, No. 330925, case No. 118860. Made circa 1910. Fine and rare, nickel cased, keyless pocket watch with split second chronograph and 30 minute instantaneous recorder.

Four body, "bassine" polished, co-axial button in the crown for start/stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph, olive- shaped button at 11 for the split-seconds. Hinged nickel cuvette. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer Arabic minute and fifths of a second chronograph divisions, sunk subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register. Gold spade hands. 18''', matte gilt, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator.