17,250 CHF
Dent, Maker to the Queen, 33 Cockspur St. , Charing Cross, London, No. 27214, hallmarked 1871-72.Very fine and very rare 18K gold keyless double-train inde-pendent dead seconds watch with split-seconds chronograph with 12-hour coaxial stem register. White enamel (attributed to Willis), two small radial Roman chapters, one for the going train and one for the recorder, outer minute track, sunk centers, outer seconds track with five-minute Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. Notes English watches with independent seconds are rare. This one, with its double clutch setting and the unusual split-seconds mechanism, is particularly unusual. The dead seconds mechanism operates in three phases, controlled by a single pushbutton: 1st push - to start both hands from zero position regardless of whether they are split or not; 2nd push - to split; 3rd push - to stop
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-11-16
