Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013
TIFFANY & CO MINUTE REPEATING SPLITSECONDS CHRONOGRAPH yellow gold Tiffany & Co, Geneve, No. 78433, case No. 97028. Made circa 1897. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, minute repeating keyless pocket watch with split second chronograph, 60 minute register. Accompanied by a box.
C. Four-body, bassine, polished, case back engraved
emblem, slide for locking the chronograph at 11, button
for split-seconds between 10 and 11. Hinged gold
cuvette engraved William A. Gaston from Robert Bacon,
December 25, 1897.
D. White enamel dial with radial Arabic numerals, outer
minute and 1/5 second divisions, outermost red Arabic
five second numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds
and 60-minute register. Blue steel spade hands.
M. 16 1/4 ???, three-quarter plate, 32 jewels, counterpoised
straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation
balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan
neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated
by a slide on the band.
Dial, case and movement signed.
Diam. 46 mm. Thickness 14 mm.
Grading System | |
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Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3-28 |
Good Replacements |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-07-08 |
Good HANDS Replaced HANDS Repaired |