Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 345

Courvoisier Freres Jump Hours & Retrograde Minutes Courvoisier Freres, ?Modernista?, Swiss. Made circa 1910. Fine, gold-filled, keyless digital jumpinghour pocket watch with retrograde fly-back minute hand. To be sold without reserve

CHF 800 - 1,200

USD 800 - 1,200 / EUR 600 - 900

Sold: CHF 1,375

C. Four-body, ?demi-bassine?, back cover engine-turned and with vacant cartouche. Hinged metal cuvette engraved in the Art Nouveau style. D. Matte silver, the upper half with retrograde Arabic minute sector, aperture for the jump hours below 12 o?clock, subsidiary seconds. M. 18''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 15 jewels, straight line lever escapement, notched bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Cuvette engraved "Modernista Patent". Movement with patent number 27838. Diam. 50 mm. Property of an Swiss collector


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3-8*

Good

Slightly scratched

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

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

The mechanism is based on a Swiss patent No. 27838, issued to Gabriel Lopez Mantaras of Saragosse, and registered on May 5, 1903. Modernista, registered in 1903, was Courvoisier Frères' trademark for marketing Mantaras system watches.