Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 20, 1991

LOT 61

Rieussec, Hger. du Roi, Chaudé & Bruneau, rue Neuve des Petits Champs, No.13. Chronographe, Brevet d'invention No.4, circa 1845. Extremely rare silver cased inking chronograph with five-minute progressive recorder.

CHF 4,000 - 6,000

C. Three body massive "quatre baguettes" polished. Gilt brass hinged cuvette. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals and subsidiary minute register. Blued-steel arrow patent inking hand. Frosted and gilt full-plate movement, cylinder escapement , plain balance, flat spring. Stop watch and inking push-pieces in the band, the hand of the five-minute recorder running anti-clockwise. Signed on the cuvette. In very good condition. Diam. 71 mm.


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Rieussec, was the first to patent an inking chronograph in 1821,originally with a fixed inking hand and a revolving dial. It was subsequently improved in 1823 by Fatton for Breguet, with a revolving inking hand and a normal dial. This counter is a fine and very rare example of the final development of the inking chronograph, signed by Rieussec himself toward the end of his career, after he took Chaudé & Bruneau as partners; the No.4 suggests that it was made early in their partnership.