Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 335

?Dress Watch? Tiffany & Co., Geneva, No. 11077. Made in Switzerland for Tiffany & Co. circa 1880. Fine, mid-sized, hunting-cased, keyless, yellow gold dress watch with two-tone enamel dial. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, "bassine et filet", solid, polished, glazed cuvette. D. Two-tone white and off-white enamel with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel ?spade? hands. M. Cal. 16''', maillechort, "fausses côtes" decoration, 18 jewels, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, ?wolf's tooth? winding wheels. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm.