Exceptional Discoveries: The Olmsted Complications Collection
Tiffany & Co.
A yellow gold open-faced keyless minute repeating watch with split-seconds chronograph, register, perpetual calendar and moon phases, No. 1880, Circa 1900
Auction Closed
December 8, 10:03 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Movement: nickel lever escapement, jeweled to the center carried in gold screwed chatons, bi-metallic compensation balance, two polished steel hammers repeating on coiled gongs, signed Tiffany & Co New York, patent numbered 1880
Dial: white enamel dial, stylized Arabic numerals, four subsidiary dials indicating day of week, date and months calibrated for four-year leap cycle, combined with 60-minute register and phases and ages of the moon further combined with constant seconds
Case: 18k yellow gold, slide repeat, pusher and locking slide for split seconds on the band, case stamped Tiffany & Co. numbered 5117, cuvette stamped Tiffany & Co., 5117 and 76
Signed: case, cuvette, and movement signed Tiffany & Co.
Diameter: 52.5 mm