Important Watches

Geneva, Mar 20, 2010

LOT 83

Paul Ditisheim Dress Watch Paul Ditisheim, Solvil, movement No. 404165, case No. 305553. Made in the 1930's. Fine, large and elegant, 18K yellow gold, keyless dress watch. To be sold without reserve

CHF 3,000 - 4,000

USD 2,800 - 3,700 / EUR 2,000 - 2,700

Sold: CHF 1,560

C. Three-body, polished, rounded bezel. D. Matte silver with prainted upright Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 17 ''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straightline lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, the cut equidistant between the arms, Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 52 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-6-01

Good

Slightly oxidized

HANDS Original

Notes

Paul Ditisheim (1868-1945). He was born on October 28th, 1868, in Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. He died in Geneva on February 7th, 1945. After early training in Switzerland, he studied in Berlin and Paris, arriving in England in 1891, where he worked as a technician at the Rotherham factory in Coventry. He started his own manufacture at Chaux-de-Fonds in 1892, specializing in very high precision watches and jeweled watches. Success in both spheres followed rapidly, and he won many honors for adjusted watches, especially at the Neuchâtel and Kew Observatories.
He collaborated with Dr. Ch. E. Guillaume in the use of both the Guillaume ?integral? balance and the elinvar-type of autocompensating balance spring. He also contributed many papers to scientific and horological journals, and was associated with Dr. Paul Woog, an oil chemist, in the development of Chronax oils.