16,520 HKD
"Eight Days" Agassiz Watch Co. , Swiss, No. 249749. Made for G.W. Fairchild & Sons. Inc., Bridgeport, Conn(ecticut), circa 1920. Fine and rare, thin, 18K gold, keyless, 8-day going pocket watch with power reserve indication. Four-body, “bassine”, polished, concealed hinge. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, Dauphine numerals, outer minute track, power reserve indication at 12, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. 37 mm (16 1/2 ’’’), rhodium-plated, "fausses-cotes" decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, “swan-neck” micrometric regulator, 8-day power via an additional wheel. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Notes Another watch of the same type, No. 249712, was sold by Antiquorum, Hong Kong, June 6, 2004, lot 105. Agassiz Watch Co. S. A., founded in 1876, specialized in high quality watches. A new caliber was designed on the basis of regular 19''' watch movements, smaller in diameter and as slim as technically possible. The firm designed entirely new and even thinner movements: first 17'''- 24/12th, and then 20/12th, and 17/12th. Later, Agassiz merged with Touchon & Co. of Geneva, who specialized in very thin movements. "Dictionnaire des Horlogers Genevois", Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, Genève 1998.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-11-25
