Important Collectors Wristwatches, P...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 20, 1991
LOT 42
Chas. Haley,Invenit et fecit, London, No. CN11592.
CHF 1,000 - 1,200
Sold: CHF 6,325
Full plate movement with fusee, Peto crossdetent escapement, three armed compensated balance.circa 1790. Without dial. Chamb. p. 239. O. T.L. No.28, illustration No.6. This escapement was devised in order to circumvent the patent taken out by Earnshaw.
