Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 13

"Perpetuelle" Faite par Dussault, Passage Choiseul 15, à Paris, No. 624. Made circa 1850. Fine and very unusual, 18K gold, self-winding ?perpetuelle-type? pocket watch.

HKD 70,000 - 90,000

USD 9,000 - 12,000 / EUR 7,200 - 9,000

Sold: HKD 70,800

C. Three-body, "forme quatre baguettes" with engine-turned flat band and polished back. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions. Gold Breguet hands. M. 43 mm., 19"', gilt brass, unusual bar caliber with the platinum winding weight pivoted in a recess on the border, double-ended banking spring, manual locking arm to block the winding, 8 jewels, cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, index regulator. Signed on the winding weight, dial plate punched ?PR 146?. Diam. 47 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-53-01

Good

Reprinted

HANDS Original

Notes

Self-winding watches from this period, constructed with a bar caliber movement are extremely rare. This example is particularly interesting by virtue of the original layout of the bridges, allowing the platinum weight to oscillate on the side of the movement between two steel banking springs, an idea to reduce the thickness of the watch. The arm of the weight has a semicircular kink to act as a shock absorber. A similar arrangement was adopted by Breguet for the small series of self winding pocket watches, sold as a set with a minute repeating astronomical wristwatch in 1991 (see lot 26).