Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 182

SHREVE, CRUMP & LOW, BOSTON, SILVER POCKET CHRONOGRAPH Shreve, Crump & Low, Boston, No. 101716. Made circa 1900. Very fine and rare, keyless, sterling silver split-second chronograph pocket watch. Accompanied by a box.

Four-body, "bassine," polished, silver hinged cuvette, hinged case back with initials, split-second control button at 11 o'clock. White enamel with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions and 1/5th second track with red 5-second Arabic markers, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel spade hands. 43 mm. nickel, half-plate, 21 jewels, straight-line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance and blued steel Breguet balance spring. Cuvette and movement signed.