Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 18, 1997
LOT 450
Du Bois & Fils au Locle, No. 3770, circa 1820. Fine and unusual 18K gold quarter repeating watch with special escapement.
CHF 2,500 - 3,000
Sold: CHF 3,680
C. Four body, Empire, engine-turned with split reeded band. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer minute ring. Blued steel "pear" hands. M. 21''', gilt brass full plate, fusee with chain and maintaining power, single wheel duplex escapement with steel escape wheel, plain steel three-arm balance, blued steel flat balance spring with regulator. Repeating on gongs by depressing the pendant. Signed on the cuvette. Diam. 57 mm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 2 |
Very good |
Movement: 2 |
Very good |
Dial: 22-51 |
Later original Partially reprinted |
Notes
This watch is very similar to those produced by Urban Jirgensen in
Le Locle at the same period. The case and dial are almost identical,
the signature on the cuvette is also however written in Gothic and
the movement is constructed with the same ehauche; Jorgensen was
using the double wheel duplex escapement and his watches were
fitted with a Breguet type bimetallic compensation curb on the
regulator index.