Exceptional horologic works of art

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Oct 11, 2003

LOT 488

M.J. Tobias, Liverpool, No. 106537, Swiss for the U.S. market, circa 1850. Fine 18K gold independent dead-seconds watch with two going trains and 12-hour recorder.

C. four-body, ?forme quatre baguettes?, bezels engravedwith scrolled foliage, the back engraved with the crest andmotto of the United States of America. Hinged gold cuvette.D. gold engraved with Swiss landscapes, two small symmetrical radial Roman chapter rings, small subsidiary seconds. Blued steel ?spade? hands. M. 48 mm (21?', gilded, double-train, bridge caliber, lateral club-tooth lever escapement, gold three arm compensation balance, flat balance spring with index regulator. Independent dead center-seconds by means of a flirt on the escape pinion and through an activating bolt in the band. One motion train is driven directly from the independent seconds train in order to be used as hour and minute recorders, however can be used as a second time zone dial if the independent seconds are run continuously.Cuvette signed.Diam. 52 mm.