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.
Notes
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.