Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 14, 1990
LOT 293
Ratel à Paris, No. 275, circa 1820. Unusual silver cased center seconds beating watch with a special escapement.
CHF 5,000 - 6,000
Sold: CHF 8,625
Three body "Empire" engine turned case. GiIt brass cuvette. Small offset dial with Breguet numerals, outer Arabic seconds ring. Blued steel Breguet hands. Unusual giIt brass movement, the skeletonized back plate slightly smaller than the revealing the going train, with cylindrical pillars, fusee with maintaining power, half second beating double wheel duplex escapement with plain brass large three armed balance, diamond endstone, flat blued steel balance spring. Signed on the cuvette. In very good condition. Diam. 56 mm.
