2,880 CHF
Split-Seconds Chronograph Tiffany & Co, New York, No. 97281. Made in Switzerland, circa 1900. Very fine, keyless, 18K gold pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph. Four-body, "bassine", polished, concealed hinge, rectangular pusher on the band for the split-seconds. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, radial Arabic numerals, outer minute track and fifths of a second divisions with red Arabic five-minute/ seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. 19’’’, 24 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed Tiffany & Co. Diam. 52 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-10-04