Important Collectors' Watches, Pocket...

Geneva, Mar 16, 2008

LOT 470

Captain?s Watch Attributed to Girard-Perregaux, La Chaux de Fonds, No. 73931. Made circa 1870. Fine, rare and unusual, 18K gold, two-train pocket watch with two-time-zones, independent dead center-seconds and ruby cylinder escapement. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, "demi-bassine et filet", engine-turned, the back with initials "DV". Hinged gold cuvette. D. Silver, regulator-type, two meantime dials, one with Arabic numerals, the other with radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute divisions, outermost seconds divisions, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel scotties hands. M. 22''', two-train, frosted gilt, unusual caliber with central bar bridge straddling both trains and a semi-circular barrel bridge securing both barrels, ruby cylinder escapement, three-arm, flat-rim gilt balance with pare-chute on the top pivot, blued steel flat balance spring with bimetallic compensation curb on the index regulator, center-seconds operated by means of a flirt against the escape wheel. Dialplate punched "HF" and numbered, reverse of dial scratched "HF" and numbered. Diam. 57 mm.