Important Collectors Wristwatches, P...
Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Oct 15, 2006
LOT 233
"Tachymeter - System E. Marie" Paul Garnier, Horloger, Rue Taitbout 6 & 16, Paris, "Tachymetre Systeme E. Marie", No. 7576. Made for the Paris - Lyon - Méditerranée, railway company, circa 1860. Fine, rare and unusual, silver hunting cased decimal pocket tachometer calibrated to measure 100 seconds at one second intervals, central progressive one second register hand and table for calculating the speed in kilometres per hour from the seconds elapsed.
CHF 3,000 - 5,000
EUR 1,900 - 3,200 / USD 2,500 - 4,000
C. Four-body, massive, ?bassine et filet?, polished, the back engraved: ?P. L. M. Exploitation?, the tachometer table engraved inside the cover calculated for one kilometer. Hinged silver cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Arabic numerals and 10 x 10 second divisions. Blued steel hands. M. 49.5 mm, gilt brass, half-plate with going barrel, cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, blued steel flat balance spring with regulator. Tachometer bolt and reset slide in the band. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 58 mm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: A |
Good |
Case: 3-9 |
Good Scratched |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-43-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Notes
was created between 1858 and 1862 as a result of the amalgamation of the earlier Paris-Lyon and Lyon-Méditerranée companies, and subsequently incorporating a number of smaller railways, the PLM operated chiefly in the south-east of France, with a main line which connected Paris to the Cote d?Azur via Dijon, Lyon and Marseille, the company also operated railways in Algeria. PLM was integrated into the majority state-owned Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais (SNCF) in 1938 and became the south-eastern region of SNCF which includes the RER which has serviced Geneva since 1912.