Important Watches and Wristwatches

St-moritz, Badrutt's Palace Hotel, Feb 25, 1990

LOT 83

Paul Didisheim, La Chaux-de-Fonds, No. 51199, circa 1915.

Rare and fine 18k gold keyless pocket chronometer with chronograph, an instantaneous 30-minute recorder and a medical tachometer, awarded a first class certificate at the Neuchatel Observatory. Four body massive "bassine" polished case. Gold cuvette engraved with the awarded prize. Three piece white enamel dial with Breguet numerals, outer red minute and chronograph rings, red tachometer scale graduated for 30 pulses. subsidiary seconds and minute register. Blued steel Breguet hands. Very fine rhodium plated 18" movement marked " Grand prix Paris 1900", 26 jewels, straight line lever escapement. brass invar Guillaume balance, Breguet balance spring. The chronograph with a visible work, the push piece on the winding crown and a boit on the band. Signed on the dial, the case and the cuvette. In very good condition. Diam. 54 mm.