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

LOT 215

?Independent Dead Seconds, Regulator Dial? Aubert & Klaftenberger, Watchmaker to the Queen & H.R.H. Prince Albert, 157 Regent Street, London, No. 5951. The case with London hallmarks for 1854 - 1855. Very fine and rare, slim, 18K gold and enamel, two-train pocket watch with independent dead center seconds, minute register, regulator dial and duplex escapement.

CHF 9,000 - 11,000

EUR 5,500 - 7,000 / USD 7,200 - 9,000

Sold: CHF 15,340

C. Five-body, ?bassine et filet?, by Alfred Stram (master mark), engine-turned covers, the front cover with a central oval cartouche decorated with a royal blue champlevé enamel monogram beneath a Viscount's coronet, polished flat band. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel, regulator-type, mean time dial at 6 o'clock with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary progressive minute register dial, outer seconds track. Blued steel ?spade? hands. M. 43 mm., 19''', frosted gilt, bar caliber, two-train, 19 jewels, duplex escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, center seconds stop-slide on the band, hand-setting and register re-setting from the back. Dial, movement and cuvette signed. Diam. 51 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

This very fine watch, once the property of an English Viscount, is in exceptionally good condition. The independent dead center seconds is unusual in having a minute register dial, being two-train independent center seconds. This watch can be used as a true chronograph. The minute register has to be manually re-set from the back with a key. The maker's inscription on the cuvette is unusual in naming H.R.H Prince Albert as well as The Queen (Victoria).