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Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 504

Independent Center-Seconds & Diablotine Jules Emmery, Sagne. Made circa 1860. Very fine and rare, two-train, silver pocket watch with independent center-seconds and quarter-second diablotine.

CHF 2,400 - 3,500

USD 2,200 - 3,200 / EUR 1,500 - 2,200

Sold: CHF 3,000

C. Four-body, ?bassine et filet?, polished, stopbutton in the pendant for the center-seconds and diablotine. Hinged silver cuvette. D.White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost seconds track, subsidiary quarter-second diablotine. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 44 mm., rhodium plated, fausses cotes and star decoration, two-train, 23 jewels, the escapement pivots with gold jewel caps, counterpoised lateral lever escapement with elongated fork, cut bimetallic compensation balance with adjustment screws, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed. Diam. 53 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3-6

Good

Slightly oxidized
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Jules Emmery Working in La Sagne in the mid-19th century. A watch (possibly this watch) is recorded by Baillie in the Chambers Collection with ?sweep seconds and ¼ seconds hands?.
For a note on the diablotine, see previous lot.