Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 664

Ferdinand I, Prince of Bulgaria Paul Buhre, Taber Type, No. 3649. Made for presentation, circa 1890. Fine, silver, hunting cased, keyless pocket watch, the case with an applied polychrome painted on enamel portrait of Ferdinand I, Prince of Bulgaria. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, ?bassine et filet?, polished, the back cover with engraved with the cipher of Ferdinand I, the front cover set with an applied painted on enamel plaque of Ferdinand I. Hinged silver cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Black spade hands. M. 42 mm., 19???, rhodium plated, 15 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 54 mm