Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Nov 12, 2006

LOT 195

C.H. Meylan, Brassus, Swiss, No. 2766. Made in the 1880s for the North American market. Fine and rare, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K rose gold pocket watch with chronograph.

C. Four-body, "bassine et filets,? solid, polished, front cover with engraved monogram, the interior of the back cover with engraved names. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Three-piece, white enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and chronograph divisions, red painted Arabic five second numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 19''', half plate, maillechort, "fausses côtes" decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 53 mm.