Important Watches, Wristwatches, Cloc...
Basel April 21, 1990, Apr 21, 1990
LOT 433
Robert Brandt & Cie, La Chaux-de-Fonds, circa 1840 Rare and elegant 18K gold watch with a regulator dial and a thermometer in the manner of Sylvain Mairet.
CHF 15,000 - 18,000
Three body massive "Empire" case with reeded band and engineturned back. Gold cuvette. White enamel dial with an offset small Roman hour ring, symmetrical small Arabic minute ring, a sector above for the Reaumur thermometer and a small subsidiary second dial be-low. Gold "arrow and spade" hands. Very fine 17.5- gilt brass bar thin movement, 10 jewels, the going barrel with a female winding hole, Sylvain Mairet type lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, flat balance spring. Signed on the cuvette. In good condition. Diam. 43 mm.
