Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 417

Chas. Frodsham, Minute-Repeater & Chronograph Chas. Frodsham, 27, South Molton St., London, No. 09952 AD.Fmsz, the movement attributed to Nicole Nielsen. The pocket watch case with London hallmarks for 1924-25, the wristwatch case made in the 1990s. Fine, large, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold and platinum wristwatch with custom-made case, chronograph, progressive 60-minute register and 18K yellow gold buckle. Accompanied by the original 18K Harrison Mills Frodsham half-hunting pocket watch case and fitted box.

C. Wristwatch : three-body, polished, coin-edge band, curved bezel, straight curled lugs with platinum screwed bars, transparent back with 7 screws, chronograph button at 12. Pocket Watch: Four-body, pomme et filets, by Harrison Mills Frodsham, polished, the front cover with radial blue champleve enamel Roman numerals, inner minute track, thief-proof swivel bow. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and fifths of a second divisions with Arabic five-second numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and progressive 60-minute register. Blued steel spade hands. M. 17???, matte gilt, 17 jewels, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, diamond endstone, visible chronograph work, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 47 mm. Thickness 18 mm for the wristwatch, and diam. 51 mm for the pocket watch case.