3,540 CHF
“Lever Chronometer with Bulletin de Marche” Mario Marocco, Ecole d’Horlogerie, Geneve, No. 36. Made circa 1920. Very fine, silver and gold, keyless, lever chronometer with Bulletin de Marche du Bureau de Controle de l’Etat de Geneve (No. 6257) and a fitted mahogany box. Four-body, “bassine”, polished, gold hinges and thumb-piece. Hinged silver cuvette. White enamel, threepiece, Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. 42 mm., 18’’’, frosted gilt, 20 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, stamped twice with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with peripheral gold temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm. Notes Seal of Geneva Quality Mark. The Seal of Geneva Quality Mark is a trademark of the Office of Geneva Control of Watches. It was established on November 6, 1886, amended several times with the largest change incorporated on December 10, 1955. Its function was to voluntarily control watches made in the Canton of Geneva. Paragraph 3 of the statues states that the watches awarded the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark must "after examination prove to have a perfect mechanism to ensure regular and durable functioning".
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
