Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 12, 1997
LOT 217
Courvoisier Freres, La Chaux-de-Fonds, «Modernista '>, Swiss Patent No. 27838, registered on 5 May 1903 by Gabriel Lopez Montaras, Saragos. Unusual gilt metal keyless digital jumping hour watch with flying back minute hand.
CHF 800 - 1,000
Sold: CHF 1,265
C. Three body, «bassine et filets., engine-turned. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Silvered, engine-turned with aperture for the jumping digital hour, half moon sector for minutes and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel «spade>> hand. M. 17" ', nickel plated, 15 jewels, straight line lever escapement, bimetallic balance, flat balance spring. Signed on the cuvette. In very good condition, with copy of the original patent. Diam. 50 mm.
