Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 17, 1992

LOT 461

Anonymous, Swiss, circa 1840. Unusual and elegant, 18 ct. gold, small and very slim watch with eccentric dial and thermometer.

CHF 2,000 - 2,500

C. Four body, forme collier, engine-turned. Gold cuvette. D. Silver engine turned, with Roman numerals on an eccentric chapter and a thermometer large sector. Blued steel fleurs de lys hands. M. 14-, giIt brass, bar caliber, cylinder escapement, plain gilt brass three armed balance, flat balance spring. In very good condition. Diam. 38 mm.


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Very much in the style of Breguet, this watch is a good example to demonstrate the influence of the eminent watchmaker on his colleagues