42,480 HKD
"Minute Repeater & Chronograph" Maurice Ditisheim, Chaux de Fonds, No. 15833. Made circa 1900. Fine, large, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with chronograph. Four body, "bassine", polished, the front cover with engraved monogram. Hinged gold cuvette, glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. White enamel, three-piece with radial Roman numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions calibrated from 0-300 units, subsidiary seconds. Gold "Louis XV" hands. Notes Maurice Ditisheim (d.1895) The Vulcain company was founded in 1858 in Chaux-de-Fonds by Maurice Ditisheim and was also called Ditisheim Frères. An advertisement in the “Almanach des Horlogers” (St. Imier 1888) mentioned them as a “Fabrique d’Horlogerie” and they both bought and sold. In 1894, the Maurice Ditisheim company and the company Ditisheim Frères, Fabrique Vulcain, combined forces, the name becoming “Maurice Ditisheim, Fabrique Vulcain”. Maurice Ditisheim exhibited watches at the 1893 Columbian World Exhibition in Chicago.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
