4,625 CHF
Dead-Seconds Compteur Militaire Swiss. "Montre à Secondes Independantes à Trois Mouvements". Made circa 1835. Extremely rare and fine, 18K gold, two-train, jump-hour, independent dead-seconds Compteur Militaire pocket watch with provision for jumping with different speed. To be sold without reserve Four-body, "forme collier", back with engraved foliate monogram, flat engine-turned band, bolt at 4 o clock for start/stop of the dead seconds, pin at 6 for change of the jumping speed. Hinged gilt-metal cuvette. Silver, engine-turned, aperture for the jump hours at the top, eccentric minute and dead-seconds chapter below, aperture at 7 for indications of the number of jumps per minute. Gold lozenge hand.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-03-27
