Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 12, 1996
LOT 213
Tschiffelj, Berne, Swiss, circa 1740. Extremely rare and fine silver pair cased watch with special verge escapement.
CHF 13,000 - 16,000
Sold: CHF 17,250
C. Double body outer, oignon type, polished. Inner bassine, polished. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring. Diamondset Louis XV hands. M. Hinged gilt brass with baluster pillars, fusee with chain, very rare and unusual verge escapement with horizontal double escape wheel, plain brass three-arm balances, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece. Signed on the back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 47 mm.
Notes
Very few watches with this type of escapement are known to
exist, they are all made by watchmakers from La Neuveville
in the Jura Bernois, even if they worked later in other places.
A similar watch was described by J.C. Sabrier in L ' Horlogerie
Anciennae, bulletin of A.N.C.A.H.A. No. 19.
An other similar watch by Bellejean, Neuveville, from the
Glicken collection, was sold by Antiquorum in Geneva in
October 1994, lot 25.