Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Grand Havana Room, May 26, 2004

LOT 234

Tiffany & Co., New York, No. 17153. Produced circa 1884. Very fine and rare, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold watch with split-seconds chronograph. Presented to G. P. Morisini by Jay Gould in 1885. Accompanied by the book ?Jay Gould ?How He Made his Millions? by Murat Halstead and J. Frank Beale Jr., published in 1892.

C. Four-body,"bassine et filets, solid, polished, hinged bezel and back, case back engraved ?JPM?, gold hinged cuvette engraved ?G. P. Morisini ? Remembrance from Jay Gould?. D. White enamel with painted Roman numerals, outer minute ring, outermost chronograph divisions with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds dial. Blued steel ?Breguet? hands. M. Cal. 45 mm (20'''), nickel, half-plate, 35 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balanc, blued steel Breguet balance spring, split-seconds mechanism under the dial, repeating on gongs through activating slide on the band.Dial, case and movement signed ?Tiffany?.Diam. 56 mm.