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The Furama Hotel Hong Kong, Victoriana Room, Jun 05, 2000

LOT 215

Tiffany & Co., New York, No. 15734, made inGeneva for the American Market, circa 1870.Fine and unusual 18K pink gold, keyless watch with split-seconds chronograph.

C. Four-body, massive, ?bassine et filets?, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with small eccentric sunk Roman chapter ring on the top, for hours and minutes, sunk subsidiary seconds, symmetrically disposed below, red Arabic chronograph ring on the bezel?s border. Blued-steel Breguet hands. M. 19???, nickel plated, three-quarter plate, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 23 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring. Chronograph withisible work released from the winding-crown, split-seconds push-piece in the band.Signed on the dial, case and movement.Diam. 52 mm.