8,125 CHF
MAURICE DITISHEIM - MINUTE REPEATER & CHRONOGRAPH Maurice Ditisheim, Chaux de Fonds, No. 21868. Made circa 1900. Fine, large, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with chronograph. Four body, "bassine", polished, push piece in the band at 12 o’clock foir the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the Prize Medals. White enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minutes and fi fths of a second divisions calibrated from 0-300 units, subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands. Notes Lot 277 - Maurice Ditisheim (d.1895) The Vulcain company was founded in 1858 in Chaux-de-Fonds by Maurice Ditisheim and was also called Ditisheim Frères. An advertisement in the “Almanach des Horlogers” (St. Imier 1888) mentioned them as a “Fabrique d’Horlogerie” and they both bought and sold. In 1894, the Maurice Ditisheim company and the company Ditisheim Frères, Fabrique Vulcain, combined forces, the name becoming “Maurice Ditisheim, Fabrique Vulcain”. Maurice Ditisheim exhibited watches at the 1893 Columbian World Exhibition in Chicago.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-11-11
