6,750 CHF
RARE COMBINED 12-HOUR AND 24-HOUR DUAL TIME ZONE POCKET WATCH WITH CONTINUOUS AND STOPPABLE SPLIT-CENTER SECONDS SIX HANDS FROM THE CENTER PINK GOLD Swiss, case No. 60049. Made circa 1890. Very fine, extremely rare and unusual, two-time-zone, heavy 18K pink gold, keyless pocket watch with independently adjustable 12-hour and 24-hour concentric dials, continuous and stoppable center split-seconds without return-to-zero and six hands from the center. Four-body, bassine et filets, polished, two protected buttons flanking the crown for the independent setting of both time zones, button in the band at 12 for the stop and rejoin of the chronograph hand to the center-seconds. Hinged gold cuvette. Two-piece, white enamel with inner radial Roman numerals for the 12-hour dial, outer minute track, outer 24-hour ring and outermost chronograph track calibrated to 300 units. Blued steel spade hands for the 12-hours, gold spade hands for the 24-hours and blued steel chronograph hands. 19''', matte gilt, three-quarter plate, jeweled to the center with screwed gold chatons, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator. Case numbered. Notes DIAM. 55 mm. This very high quality and unusual watch has provision for displaying the time in two different zones on both a 12-hour and 24-hour basis. Each dial is independently adjustable so that both local time and standard time can be set. For the 24-hour dial, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2015-05-10
