106th Auction
2022/5/21
Lot 305
P. H. Doret
A fine and heavy hunting case pocket watch with split second chronograph and stoppable flying fourth of a seconds indicator "Seconde Foudroyante", made for the US-American market
Sold
estimated
3.000—4.000 €
Price realized
4.200 €
specific features
Case
18 K gold, engine-turned.
Dial
Enamel.
Movement
Bridge movement, tandem winding, 2 barrels, gold screw compensation balance.
Case no.62114 10039
Diam.56 mm
Circa1860
Ctry.Switzerland
Wt.143 g
This watch dates from the early developments of the mechanism for chronographs. It is a "real" chronograph with an independent train. It most probably dates from shortly before Adolphe Nicole's patent of 1862. Unlike that patent, the hands of the present watch cannot be set to zero.