Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 08, 2011

LOT 279

C.H. Meylan - Minute Repeater C.H. Meylan, Brassus, Swiss, No. 2815. Made circa 1890 for the North American market. Fine and rare, keyless, semi-skeletonized, minute-repeating, gold-plated pocket watch.

C. Three-body, demi-bassine, polished. D. Transparent with radial Roman numerals and minute track on a matte silver outer disc, subsidiary seconds at 3 with black dot seconds scale painted inside the crystal. Blued steel spade hands. M. Cal. 18''', 3/4 plate, fausses cotes decoration, 19 jewels, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance - adjusted - isochronal vibrations, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Movement signed. Diam. 57 mm