Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 18, 1997

LOT 242

Loehr, Brevete S.G.D.G. No. 1867, circa 1880. Fine and interesting nickel plated self-winding watch.

CHF 1,500 - 2,000

Sold: CHF 1,495

C. Four body, "bassine et filets", polished. Hinged nickel plated cuvette centred with the adjusting knob aperture. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. 18"', gilt brass three quarter plate, relieved for the winding weight oscillation, going barrel pivoted on border of the back plate, going barrel, cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring with regulator. The barrel is wound by the winding weight by means of a double click work allowing the bidirectional oscillation of the weight to wind it. The going barrel is also fitted with a winding square and the central arbor with a milled knob to set the hands. Signed on the dial and case. Diam. 50 mm.


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Grading System
Case: 4

Fair
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 21-51

Period

Partially reprinted

Notes

A very similar watch is described and illust r ated by Alfred Chapuis and Eugene Jaquet, in their book "La Montre Automatique Ancienne , pp.202-203, Ill. 129-130. Mr. A von Loehr from Vienna, who was not a watchmaker, but a mechanic, took the patent No. 1903 on I O January 1878 for this type of self winding mechanism. The performance of these watches was extremely good for the time, since a Bulletin de premiere Hasse was delivered by the Canton of Neuchatel for one of them, although it was fitted with a cylinder escapement. From 1884 onward, Loehr had his watches produced by Hahn & Cie in Landeron near Neuchatel, in square cases to ensure that they will remain in the pocket, in the vertical position.