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Geneva, May 10, 2009
LOT 252
Independent Dead Center-Seconds Savarin & Fils a Bordeaux, No. 6983. Made circa 1800. Fine and rare, two-train, silver pocket watch with independent dead center-seconds.
CHF 4,000 - 6,000
USD 3,500 - 5,200 / EUR 2,600 - 4,000
C. Three-body, ?Empire?, polished, reeded band. Fixed cuvette. D. Convex white enamel with Breguet numerals, outer star minute and seconds divisions, engraved gilt dial plate with lever between 2 and 3 o?clock for start and stop of the center seconds. Pierced gold hour and minute hands, blued steel center-seconds hand. M. 50 mm., frosted gilt, two-train with fusee and chain for the going train, the barrel with detachable bridge, standing barrel for the seconds train, steel cylinder escapement, six-leaf flirt attached to the escape wheel pinion for driving the dead center-seconds, three-arm brass balance, flat balance spring, index regulator with scale on the edge of the cock. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 60 mm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Notes
In 1776, in Geneva, Moise Pouzait invented the independent dead seconds mechanism in which the movement has two trains. One is conventional, and the second has a sweep-seconds hand that can be stopped without stopping the main train.
Jean Baptiste Savarin
is recorded as working in the Rue Ste-Catherine in 1805.