Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 11, 1992
LOT 79
Courvoisier & Cie. Chaux-de-Fonds, Swiss, No. 683, circa 1850. Unusual, 18 ct. gold, thin pocket chronometer.
CHF 3,500 - 4,500
Sold: CHF 4,600
C. Four body, "forme quatre baguettes", engine turned with reeded band. Gold cuvette engraved with technical details and equation of time table. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M.18?, gilt brass, bar caliber, 10 jewels, spring detent escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel balance spring with terminal curve. Signed on the cuvette. In good condition. Diam. 47mm.
