Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

New York, Grand Havana Room, Mar 19, 2003

LOT 165

Tiffany & Co., Geneva and New York, No. 15089, circa 1880.Very fine, 18K gold, keyless, five-minute repeating watch, with split-seconds chronograph presented toJ.H. Bradford.

C .four-body, "bassine et filets" with concave bezels and reeded edges, back engraved with coat of arms with motto "Esse Quam Videri", gold hinged cuvette. D. white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, outermost chronograph divisions with five-minute/seconds red Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds. "Spade" blued steel hands. M. 45 mm (20'''), nickel, half-plate, 35 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, spli-seconds mechanism under the dial, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Dial, case and movement signed by the retailer.Diam. 55 mm