Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 17, 1992

LOT 475

Vissière au Havre (Seine Inférieure), France, No. 207, circa 1855. Fine small 49 hour going, marine chronometer, with regulator dial.

C. Three body mahogany box with external brass handles, glazed upper section with hinged lid. Brass bowl and gimballed suspension mounted on shock absorber. D. Silverd with subsidiary small Roman hourchapter, symmetrical Arabic seconds and Up-and- Down sector below, outer Arabic minute ring on the border. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Polished brass full plate with cylindrical pillars secured by screws, fusee with maintaining power, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement, two armed bimetallic compensation balance with cylindrical weights and timing screws. Free sprung polished steel helical balance spring with terminal curves and diamond endstone. Signed on the box, dial and movement In very good condition. Dial diam. 80 mm. Dim. 16 x 16 x 17 cm.