Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 17, 1992

LOT 486

Delachaux Frères, Locle, made for Wm. F. Ladd, New York, circa 1860. Rare 18 ct. gold hunting cased, key wound, improved patent quarter of second timing watch with independent seconds and minute and hour recorder.

C. Four body, massive, demi-bassine, engine-turned with reeded band. Gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Roman numerals, outer independent second ring, allowing to read the quarter of second, subsidiary seconds and hour and minute register. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 19-, gilt brass, double trains with going barrels, 18 jewels, Swiss swan neck lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, balance spring with terminal curve, the independent second boit in the hand. Signed on the dial and cuvette. In very good condition. Diam. 52 mm.