$8,850
C. H. Meylan, Brassus, Swiss, No. 5071, retailed by Dillon Hanchor & Co. Wheeling, West Virginia. Made in the 1880s. Very fine and rare, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph, register and “Superior Adjustment”. Three-body, "bassine et filets”, solid, polished, hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Arabic numerals, outer minute and chronograph divisions, sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel “spade” hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-06-14