28,750 HKD
CHARLES F. TISSOT & SON , TWO-TRAIN INDEPENDENT JUMP QUARTER SECOND CHRONOGRAPH Charles F. Tissot & Son, Locle, No. 8848. Made circa 1880. Fine and rare, sterling silver and gold, hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with two-train independent jump quarter seconds chronograph Five-body, coin-edge band, reverse with applied gold intertwined foliate decoration with outer zodiac symbols, cover with three central figures and an owl under stars and a crescent moon, start, stop and reset button to the band, Albata bezel and hinged cuvette, stone-set winding crown. White enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost minutes and 1/5th seconds, Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary quarter-second jump diablotine. Blued steel Breguet hands. Notes Founded in Le Locle, Switzerland, in 1853, by Charles Felicien Tissot, who was later joined by his son Charles Emile Tissot, the firm Ch F. Tissot became Chs F. Tosson & Fils in 1880. Still based in Le Locle, the firm would later take the name of Tissot
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09
