115,000 HKD
Tiffany & Co. , New York, Swiss, No. 18466, circa 1880. Very fine 18K gold keyless minute-repeating watch with split-seconds chronograph. Four-body, “bassine et filets”, polished, gold hinged cuvette. White enamel, radial Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, outermostchronograph track divided into fifths, subsidiary sunk seconds.Blued steel “Spade” hands. 43 mm (19’’’), maillechort, half-plate,“fausses-côtes” decoration, 32 jewels, straight line calibrated leverescapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balancespring, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 54 mm. Notes At the time this watch was made Tiffany had a movement factory in Geneva which supplied movements not only to its own New York office, but also to other companies. The present lot was sold on November 2004 by Antiquorum Geneva lot 349.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-07-10
