Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 56

Touchon & Co., Swiss, movement No. 27287, No. 14. Made for Greenleaf & Crosby Co., (Florida), circa 1910. Fine and thin, keyless, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with adjusted movement.

CHF 1,000 - 2,000

USD 1,100 - 2,200 / EUR 800 - 1,700

Sold: CHF 2,500

C. Three-body, foliate engraved and engine-turned, the front engraved with a Roman ruin and foliage. D. Off-center matte silver dial with champleve Breguet numeral, outer minute track. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 5 adjustments, fl at balance spring, index regulator. Case and movement signed Touchon & Co., dial and movement signed Greenleaf & Crosby Co. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 4 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-10-01

Good

Patinated

HANDS Original

Notes

Greenleaf, Crosby & Co. The company was founded by Damon Greenleaf and J.H. Crosby in 1868 in Jacksonville, Florida. The fi rm, still located in Florida, has created and retailed superior quality watches and jewelry for over one hundred years.