Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 287

ENGLISH LEVER GOLD POCKET WATCH H. Samuel & Son, 29, Charterhouse Square, London, No. 2218. The case with London hallmarks for 1862-1863. Fine, 18K yellow gold pocket watch.

C. Three-body, bassine et fi lets, polished bezel, engine-turned band, the back cover engraved with a lattice and fl owerhead design and central vacant cartouche. Fixed gold cuvette with winding and hand-setting apertures. Hinged and sprung dust cap. D. Gold with applied gold radial Roman numerals on an engine-turned chapter ring, outer dot minute divisions, subsidiary seconds, the center engraved with fl owers on a sunray engine-turned ground. Gold Breguet hands. M. Hinged, gilt-brass, three-quarter plate, fusee and chain with maintaining power, jeweled to the third wheel, lateral lever escapement, three-arm gold balance, fl at balance spring, index regulator. Movement signed. Diam. 50 mm.