Important Watches
Important Watches
This lot has been withdrawn
Lot Details
Description
SWISS
A GOLD TWO-TRAIN DUAL TIME WATCH WITH INDEPENDENT CENTRE SECONDS
CIRCA 1840
• Movement: gilded, lever escapement, bi-metallic balance with compensation curb, parachute suspension
• Dial: gilt, engraved with a townscape with lake in the foreground to the top, guilloché subsidiary dials for first and second time zones and subsidiary seconds
• Case: gold, engine-turned back, stop slide to independently start/stop centre seconds, gold engine-turned cuvette bearing the signature Arnold Adams & Co, London in enamel
diameter 50mm
Accompanied by an associated Desoutter, retailer's presentation case
L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute, Jerusalem, inventory no. WA 136-06