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The Ritz-carlton Hotel, Jun 06, 2004

LOT 104

Tiffany & Co., New York, Swiss, No. 18466, circa 1880. Very fine 18K gold keyless minute-repeating watch with split-seconds chronograph.

HKD 100,000 - 125,000

EUR 11,000 - 13,000 / USD 13,000 - 16,000

C. Four-body, ?bassine et filets?, polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel, radial Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions,outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel ?Spade? hands.M. 43 mm (19???), maillechort, half-plate, ?fausses-côtes? decoration, 32 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 54 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

At the time this watch was made Tiffany had a movement factory in Geneva which supplied movements not only to its own New York office, but also to other companies.