Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

New York, Grand Havana Room, May 21, 2003

LOT 250

Bigelow, Kennard & Co., Boston, made by Touchon, Brassus, Swiss, No. 5114, circa 1890.Very fine, astronomic, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K gold yellow watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, split-seconds chronograph and 60-minute register.

C. four-body, "bassine et filets", polished, case back with engraved initials, gold hinged cuvette, chronograph safety bolt at 1 o'clock on the band, split-seconds mechanism activated by push-button at 11 o'clock. D. White enamel with radial Arabic numerals, outer minute and chronograph tracks with five-minute/seconds red Arabic markers, four subsidiary sunk dials for the days of the week, the date, the months of the four-year leap cycle concentric with the minute register,subsidiary seconds, aerture for the moon phases. "Spade" blued steel hands. M. Cal. 42 mm. (19'''), rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 36 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with "superior adjustment", blued steel Breguet balance spring, "swan-neck" micrometer regulator, chronograph mechanism on the back plate, split mechanism under the dial, repeating on gongs through activating slide on the band.Dial, case and movement signed by the retailer.Diam. 51 mm.