Important Collectors Watches, Pocket ...

New York, Jun 18, 2008

LOT 261

James Picard, Geneva, No. 2327, case No. 169769. Made circa 1880. Fine, hunting-cased, keyless, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph. Accompanied by a gold fob.

USD 3,000 - 4,000

EUR 2,000 - 2,600

C. Three-body, bassine, solid, polished, glazed cover to view movement. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and chronograph divisions, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 20''', maillechort, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible chronograph work, split-seconds mechanism under the dial. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 56 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good
Case: 3-10

Good

Patinated
Movement: 3-6*

Good

Slightly oxidized

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

James Picard is recorded as having worked in Geneva in the last years of the 19th and early years of the 20th century, at Quai des Bergues, 33. He often worked for the American market. Dictionnaire des Horlogers Genevois, by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, 1998.