Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Dec 02, 2003

LOT 169

Lucien Sandoz, Le Locle, No. 47484, circa1880.Fine and unusual, keyless, two-train, 18K goldwatch with independent center- seconds.

C. four-body, solid, "bassine et filets", engine-turned,vacant cartouche, hinged gold cuvette. D. white enamel with radialRoman numerals, outer independent seconds ring. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 43 mm (18. '''), nickel,"fausses côtes" decoration, straight-line calibrated lever escapement, 26 jewels, cut bimetallic compensationbalance, blued-steel Breguet balance spring, independent dead seconds by means of two-flirt wheel acting ona small pinion mounted on the escape wheel arbor, independent seconds activated by a slide in the band.Pillar plate signed and numbered, cuvette numbered.Diam. 48 mm.