Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 15, 1994
LOT 428
Paillard à Sainte Croix, Swiss, No. 14289, made for Bennett, Watchmaker to Her Majesty the Queen and to the Royal Observatory, 65 Cheapside, London, circa 1850. Fine and very rare, 18 ct. gold, dead independent seconds watch with early perpetual calendar and hour and minute recorder.
CHF 25,000 - 30,000
C. Four body, massive, "forme quatre baguettes" with reeded band, the back engineturned with an engraved small escutcheon. Gold cuvette engineturned on the border. D. White enamel by Bolle in Ste. Croix, with small symmetrical Roman chapter rings, outer Arabic seconds and calendar rings, subsidiary seconds and months. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 19-, gilt brass, double train with going barrels wound separately, 26 jewels, counterpoised straight fine lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring. Independent seconds train with boit in the band. When the independent seconds train is running, the hour and minute register can be also used as second time zone chapter. Signed on the dial and the cuvette, maker's mark punched on the front plate beneath the dial. In very good condition. Diam. 52 mm.
