Sold for:
34,500 CHF
34,500 CHF
Winnerl No. 495, circa 1840. Rare and very fine watch with early splitseconds recorder. Four body, "forme quatre baguettes", polished. Gold cuvette. White enamel with Roman numerals and subsidiary split-seconds. blued-steel Breguet hands. Notes A particularly fine example of the earliest form of the split-seconds recorder mechanism with concentric hands, invented by Winnerl, in 1838, and improved in 1840. This mechanism is described in: Bulletin de la Société d'encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale, 1843, page 195 and 196, plate 893. Photocopies of the relevant document will be furnished to the buyer of this lot.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1993-11-14
