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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 15, 2000

LOT 123

David Delachaux, Le Locle, Switzerland, No. 9760, retailed by Barich Cornell, New York, circa 1850.Fine 18K gold, hunting-cased, 12 hour recorder, independent dead-seconds watch with two motion trains.

C. Four-body, 'forme quatre baguettes', bezels engraved with scrolled foliage, front cover engraved with a scene of two gentlemen riding in two-wheeled carriages, the back engraved with a galloping horse with a nude woman tied onto it. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Gold with two small symmetrical Roman chapter rings, and small subsidiary seconds. Gold Breguet hands, blued-steel sweep-seconds hand. M. 21???, gilded, double train, 3/4 plate with cylindrical pillars, lateral club-tooth lever escapement,teel escape wheel, bimetallic compensation balance, flat balance spring with index regulator. The back plate with large translucent 'Liverpool' jewels. Independent dead center-seconds by means of a flirt on the escape pinion and through an activating bolt in the band. One motion train is driven directly from the independent seconds train in order to be used as hour and minute recorders, but it can be used as a second time zone dial if the independent seconds are run continuously.Signed on the movement, the cuvette signed by the retailer.Diam. 57 mm.