Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 277

MAURICE DITISHEIM - MINUTE REPEATER & CHRONOGRAPH Maurice Ditisheim, Chaux de Fonds, No. 21868. Made circa 1900. Fine, large, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with chronograph.

CHF 4,000 - 6,000

USD 4,300 - 6,500 / EUR 3,300 - 5,000

Sold: CHF 8,125

C. Four body, "bassine", polished, push piece in the band at 12 o?clock foir the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the Prize Medals. D. White enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minutes and fi fths of a second divisions calibrated from 0-300 units, subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands. M. 42 mm., 20''', rhodium-plated, 35 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, centrifugal regulator (Swiss patent No. 15833), chronograph with visible work. Case punched with Maurice Ditisheim's trademark registered on April 4, 1892. Diam. 56 mm


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 2*

Very good

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

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Lot 277 - Maurice Ditisheim (d.1895) The Vulcain company was founded in 1858 in Chaux-de-Fonds by Maurice Ditisheim and was also called Ditisheim Frères. An advertisement in the ?Almanach des Horlogers? (St. Imier 1888) mentioned them as a ?Fabrique d?Horlogerie? and they both bought and sold. In 1894, the Maurice Ditisheim company and the company Ditisheim Frères, Fabrique Vulcain, combined forces, the name becoming ?Maurice Ditisheim, Fabrique Vulcain?. Maurice Ditisheim exhibited watches at the 1893 Columbian World Exhibition in Chicago.