Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 18, 1998

LOT 555

C.H. Meylan, No. 6511, made for Tiffany, New York, circa 1900. Fine and very rare 18K gold small keyless fob watch with split-seconds chronograph.

C. Four body, massive "demi-bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel three piece with Arabic numerals, red outer Arabic minutes and chronograph rings and subsidiary seconds. Bluedsteel "spade" hands. M. 12 1/2"', nickel plated, "fausses cotes " decoration, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring with swan-neck micrometric index. Chronograph with visible C.H. Meylan chronograph work, patent No. 6821, the button on the windingcrown, split-seconds chronograph push piece in the band. Signed on the dial and movement. Diam. 37 mm.