Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Nov 25, 2006

LOT 101

"Two-Train Independent Center Seconds" Lucien Sandoz, Le Locle, No. 47484. Made circa 1880. Fine and unusual, two-train, 18K gold pocket watch with independent center- seconds. To be sold without reserve

HKD 38,000 - 55,000

USD 5,000 - 7,000 / EUR 4,000 - 5,500

Sold: HKD 23,600

C. Four-body, solid, "bassine et filets", polished bezel and band, engine-turned back cover with polished border and vacant cartouche, bolt at 9 o'clock to lock the seconds. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer independent seconds track. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 43 mm., 19''', nickel, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 26 jewels, gold wheel train, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued-steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, independent dead seconds by means of two-flirt wheel acting on a small pinion mounted on the escape wheel arbor, independent seconds activated by a slide on the band. Pillar plate signed and numbered, cuvette numbered. Diam. 48 m


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3-15

Good

Slightly rusted

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

A watch with an identical movement signed Maurice, was in the Theodor Beyer Private Collection, sold by Antiquorum, November 16, 2003, lot 84.