Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Apr 28, 2019

LOT 501

CHARLES OUDIN BY VICTORIN PIGUET POCKET WATCH WITH OFF-CENTRE TIME AND FIVE HOROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS, INCLUDING CHRONOGRAPH WITH A COAXIAL 60-MINUTE AND 12-HOUR RECORDER, AND DATE; 18K PINK GOLD

HKD 95,000 - 120,000

CHF 12,000 - 15,000 / USD 12,200 - 15,200

18K pink gold, open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 and five horological complications: - 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the fluted push-piece located on the case-band at 9 o'clock) - Dragging 60-minute recorder (subsidiary dial at 3 o'clock; concentric hand to the follow) - 12-hour recorder (subsidiary dial at 3 o'clock; concentric hand to the previous) - Independent timing setting of the coaxial recorder (only when the chronograph is active by the push-piece at 1 o'clock) - Date of the month (subsidiary dial at 12 o'clock; quick setting of the date by the bolt located under the bezel at 2 o'clock)


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Grading System
Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Charles Oudin

Model probably made by Victorin Piguet, Le Sentier (Vallée de Joux)

Year circa 1890

Movement No. 6 394

Calibre  19''', nickel plated, with going barrel, straightline equilibrated lever escapement, compensated balance and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve

Case No. 35 053

Material 18K pink gold

Caliber 19''', nickel plated, with going barrel, straightline equilibrated lever escapement, compensated balance and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve

Dimensions Ø 51.4 mm

Signature dial and case (by the retailer)

Accessories original fitted box

Notes

The movement of the present watch is built with a decentred centre-wheel for the offcentre subsidiary hours and minutes dial at 9 o’clock. In the subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock, is located the coaxial chronograph minute- and hour- recorder. The chronograph mechanism is fitted on the main plate, dial side. The attribution to the workshop of Victorin Piguet results especially from a Patek Philippe pocket watch with a dial of its configuration, naturally including a particular construction of the movement. This latter movement ?? with minute-repeater, chronograph, split-seconds and a coaxial 60-minute and 12-hour recorder (at 2 o’clock) ?? was manufactured in 1895 / 1896, based on an ebauche from the Victorin Piguet workshop (Le Sentier, Vallée de Joux). This watch is kept today in the Patek Philippe Museum, Geneva (Inv. P-1375). It seemed that Patek Philippe produced only this watch with this type of horological complications in this configuration. Some other Patek Philippe pocket watches are known with separate 60-minute and 12-hour recorders, all made, as well, on Victorin Piguet ebauches (see PPM, Inv. P-182, P-1211 and P-1624). Independently of its type of construction with eccentric time reading, this movement is really in the spirit of the achievements we know of Victorin Piguet. Unfortunately, as for other workshops in the Vallée de Joux which have made a specialty of producing ebauches or finished movements for major factories, especially from Geneva, we know the work of these watchmakers only by pieces signed by their sponsors but can identify them thanks to the precious “Livres d’établissement” (production register) of these manufactures.