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Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Nov 25, 2006
"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
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
Grading System | |
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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 |