3,540 CHF
"1/5 th Secondes Foudroyantes" Edouard Perregaux, Locle, No. 5912. Made circa 1870. Very fine 18K gold, hunting-cased pocket watch with double- train independent center seconds, return to zero, and 1/5th second diablotine. Five-body, "bassine et filets", engine-turned and polished covers and reeded band. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost seconds divided into fifths, subsidiary fifth-second jump diablotine. Blued-steel "Breguet" hands. Notes Edouard Perregaux (1819-1878) Edouard Perregaux won 8th prize at the Neuchâtel Observatory in 1875 with a pocket chronometer. In 1876 at Neuchâtel his company won a new prize for makers submitting at least a dozen pocket chronometers having the best mean time. In that contest they also won Fourth and Sixth Prizes for chronometers with lever escapements. They won First Prize (with five others) in the International Chronometer Contest held at the Geneva Observatory in 1876 at the Centenary of the Société des Arts. In 1877 the firm won Second and Third Prizes at Neuchâtel in Category C, pocket chronometers with lever escapements.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-05-14
