$15,000
TIFFANY FIVE MINUTE REPEATING & SPLIT SECOND CHRONOGRAPH Tiffany & Co. , New York, movement and case No. 18013. Made circa 1900. Very fine and rare, hunting cased, 18K yellow gold, five-minute repeating keyless pocket watch with split second chronograph. Accompanied by a 36 cm yellow and white gold chain with a rectangular pendant decorated with a dragon and opening slide to reveal 5 dice. Four-body, "demi-bassine", polished, case back and front cover with fl uted edges and engraved monogram, button for splitseconds function at 2, hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Arabic numerals, outer minute and 1/5th second track with red 5-minute Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds dial. Blue steel spade hands. 16 1/4 ’’’, three-quarter plate, nickel plated, 28 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed Tiffany & Co. Diam. 55 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-12-13
