Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Mar 17, 2013
LOT 255
ONE-MINUTE TOURBILLON Swiss, case No. 13598. Made circa 1880. Fine and rare, silver pocket watch with one-minute tourbillon regulator and unusual linear wheel train.
CHF 8,000 - 12,000
USD 8,500 - 1,300 / EUR 6,500 - 10,000
Sold: CHF 9,375
C. Four-body, bassine et filets, polished. Hinged silver cuvette with apertures for winding and hand-setting. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 22???, matte gilt, skeletonized circular plate securing the going barrel, center wheel and tourbillon carriage, jewelled lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, steel and brass tourbillon carriage rotating once per minute, the seconds hand driven by a wheel mounted on the lower tourbillon pivot mounted beneath a separate plate on the dial plate. DIAM. 58.5 mm.
| 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 |