Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 17, 1992
LOT 42
(Louis Linzaghi, La Chaux-de-Fonds), Brevet No. 33368, Swiss, circa 1905.
CHF 3,500 - 4,000
Sold: CHF 5,060
Unusual nickel plated keyless watch, with patented 5 minute tourbillon regulator. Three body, plain bassine et filets, carrure ronde, case. Nickel plated cuvette. Small white enamel dial with Roman numerals. Set with the train of wheels on a revolving plate beneath the dial, the straight line lever escapement with cut bimetallic balance and Breguet balance spring, is turning around the dial in 5 minutes. Nickel plated inverted movement. Diam. 55 mm.
Notes
An identical watch is described and illustrated in R.
Meis: Das Tourbillon, page 311.