Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 10, 1994
LOT 82
Not signed, Swiss, No. 45024, made for the Turkish market, bearing the London hallmarks for 1895. Fine 18 ct. gold hunting cased pocket chronometer.
CHF 5,500 - 6,500
C. Four body, massive, "bassine et filets", engineturned. Gold cuvette engine-turned on the border. D. White enamel with Turkish numerals and subsidiary seconds. Gold paste-set hands. M. 20-, gilt brass, bar calibre similar to those used by Frederic Favre-Bulle for his chronometers with tourbillon regulator, 15 jewels part in gold screwed settings, fusee with maintaining power, pivoted detent escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel spherical balance spring. In very good condition. Diam. 52 mm.
