Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 226

?One-Minute Flying Tourbillon? Comor, Bern, Swiss, ?One- Minute Tourbillon?, No. 3/10. Made in a limited edition of 10 pieces in 1985. Fine and rare, keyless, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with one-minute tourbillon regulator. Accompanied by a fitted wooden box, spare enamel dial, mainspring and a certificate.

C. Four-body, ?demi-bassine?, solid, entirely engine-turned, glazed cover to view the movement. D. White enamel with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel ?cathedral-style? hands. M. Cal. 19 1/2???, three-quarter plate, hand-engraved, rhodium-plated, 21 jewels, some in gold chatons, lateral lever escapement, one-minute flying tourbillon regulator with polished 3-arm steel carriage, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 55 mm. Property of an East Coast Collector