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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 21, 1995

LOT 477

Vissière. No.1866, circa 1880. Fine and rare silver keyless pocket chronometer, in original mahogany fitted box.

CHF 6,500 - 7,500

Sold: CHF 8,050

C. Four body, massive, "bassine et filets", polished with glazed back. Cuvette lacking. Three body mahogany deck box. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel" spade" hands. M. 22"', gilt brass threequarter plate, 9 jewels, fusee with maintaining power, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement, two-arm compensation balance with poising and timing screws, free sprung blued steel helical balance spring with double terminal curve. Special stem winding device. Signed on the dial. hi very good condition. Diam. 68 mm.


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Previously in the L. Leroy collection, this watch was exhibited in his Private Technical Museum. As for all the other watches of this museum, the cuvette was removed and the back was glazed. Simon Vissière was born in Paris in 1822 and died in Les Cannets in 1887. Pupil to Winnerl, he was specially known for his researches on amagnetism. Awarded a silver medal in the 1849, he also exhibited in 1851 and in London in 1852. Established in Le Havre in 1867, he had his own personal observatory. He patented a chronometer balance in 1867.