Important Watches, Pocket Watches and...

Noga Hilton Hotel, Nov 13, 2005

LOT 13

"Secondes Foudroyantes" Edouard Perregaux, Locle, No. 5912. Made circa 1870. Very fine 18K gold, hunting-cased pocket watch with double-train independent center seconds, return to zero, and 1/5th second diablotine.

CHF 5,000 - 7,000

EUR 3,200 - 4,500 / USD 4,000 - 5,500

C. Five-body, "bassine et filets", engineturned and polished covers and reeded band. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost seconds divided into fifths, subsidiary fifth-second jump diablotine. Blued-steel "Breguet" hands. M. 19.5''', nickel, 28 jewels, most in screwed gold chatons, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance- spring, tandem winding, independent seconds activated by a pushpiece in the band. Dial and cuvette signed, case and movement numbered. Diam. 55 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-19-01

Good

Dent(s)

HANDS Original

Notes

Edouard Perregaux (1819-1878) Edouard Perreaux won 8th prize at the Neuchâtel Observatory in 1875 with a pocket chronometer. In 1876 at Neuchâtel his company won a new prize for makers submitting at least a dozen pocket chronometers having the best mean time. In that contest they also won Fourth and Sixth Prizes for chronometers with lever escapements. They won First Prize (with five others) in the International Chronometer Contest held at the Geneva Observatory in 1876 at the Centenary of the Société des Arts. In 1877 the firm won Second and Third Prizes at Neuchâtel in Category C, pocket chronometers with lever escapements.