Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 31, 1998

LOT 125

Francois Allegre & Fils, No. 64, circa 1820. Fine silver stop-watch.

C. Four body, "forme quatre baguettes " with reeded band and engine-turned back. Hinged silver cuvette. D. Frosted silvered of regulator type with eccentric Roman hour chapter ring and symmetrical subsidiary seconds below, the Arabic minute ring on border of the bezel. Blued-steel " scoties " hands. M. Gilt brass full plate with conical pillars, going barrel, cylinder escapement, plain gold three-arm balance, flat balance spring with bimetallic compensation curb on the index. Stop lever beneath the bezel. Signed on the dial. Diam. 61 mm.