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Grasset. An interesting example of a lever pocket watch movement with simplified stem winding mechanism

SIGNED ISAAC GRASSET & CIE, GENEVE, NO. 423. CIRCA 1870

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Grasset. An interesting example of a lever pocket watch movement with simplified stem winding mechanism
Signed Isaac Grasset & Cie, Geneve, No. 423. Circa 1870
The frosted gilt bar movement with Grasset's winding system, the bimetallic balance with ruby endstone, blued steel hairspring, lever escapement, jewelled to the third, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds, outer twenty-four hour ring, blued steel moon hands, in later adapted silver case
39 mm. diam.

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Lot Essay

ALBERT ODMARK NOTES
Purchased at Ineichen auctions, 5 June 1975.

This mechanism is illustrated in Plate No. 114 of 'Technique and History of the Swiss Watch' by Eugene Jaquet and Alfred Chapuis, 1970 edition.

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