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Geneva, May 15, 2011

LOT 444

Avon ? 24-Hour Watch With Double Twelve Hours for Day and Night Joseph Avon Fecit, Geneva, 1823. Very fine and extremely rare, silver 24-hour pocket watch with double 12-hour numerals for ?Heures du Jour? and ?Heures du Soir?.

CHF 4,000 - 7,000

USD 4,500 - 7,700 / EUR 3,000 - 5,300

Sold: CHF 7,500

C. Three-body, forme quattre baguettes, polished. Hinged gilt metal cuvette. D. White enamel with Breguet hours from 1-12 twice for day and nighttime hours, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 50 mm. matte gilt, Lepine caliber, standing barrel, jeweled cylinder escapement, gold three-arm balance wheel, flat blued steel balance spring, polished steel endplate, index regulator. Dial signed, cuvette signed Avon Horloger A Apt. Diam. 58 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

This watch is a very rare example of a 24-hour watch with numerals 1-12 in each half of the dial. The hour hand only makes one revolution every 24 hours instead of every 12 hours.