Antique a fine 52 mm steel MIN REPEATER with very rare high quality chronometer up take watch movement for Tiffany & Co / New York made for the american market, , good condition. WRISTWATCH, pre- 1900.
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CASE: stainless
steel case (this watch originaly conceived as a pocket
watch and then later transformed into a wrist watch) , new custom made,
fantastic, build specialy for this wonderful movement. Two glasses in
front of and at the back. Case in super condition
DIAL: restored enamel dial good condition, with arabic hours numerals, signed: Tiffany & Co New York, very beautiful, steel hands.
MOVEMENT: high quality with chronometer up take movement is manual winding min. repeater, bridge, frosted, gilt, mirror polished steel parts, comp. balance, 2 hammers, 2 gongs, . Movement is good working condition,
clean, great keep time.
SIZE : 52 mm(not counting the crown), 62 mm long(lugs to lugs).
BRAND: new, leather Hirsch / Austria, 22 mm.
The watch is in a working order (the crown should never be pulled out.
To set the time one must push the set button and turn the crown so the
time goes forward. When winding the crown, you must stop once you feel
resistance. Attention! If you want set the time you must move the hands only forward and not backward. The watch should not be shaken, beaten, or stressed.) , condition good. All mechanisms are professionally serviceable new oiled and adjusted.
This beautiful, unusual wristwatch can serve as a perfect gift or
a valuable addition to anyone’s rare watch collection! Over time, the
price of this timepiece will only increase!
We check all our items old 80-100 years with different professional watchman before selling .
The items sold are definitely original but we can not guarantee 100%
authenticity for EVERY PART of secondhand items because these items are
not brand new.
So please read the description very carefully as we state which parts are NEW & which are ORIGINAL. To clarify all my items are Vintage or Antique and as such should Not be expected to be like a New or Quartz watch in any way whatsoever! Please bear in mind that you are buying a used watch and it will require service at some point in time.
We DO NOT sell any Replica/Fake watches.
History
Tiffany’s
sold Pateks with their name on the face for many years. In 1854 Tiffany
& Co., New York, becomes an official customer of Patek Philippe
& Co, in the United States of America.
Patek Philippe and
Tiffany & Co. share a special relationship that is unmatched in
retailing in the United States. The partnership began with a handshake
agreement in 1851 between the companies’ founders Antoine Norbert de
Patek and Charles Lewis Tiffany. That agreement, based on shared
principles of trust and integrity, fostered a relationship that
continues to promote the highest standards of excellence.
The
two companies have much in common. Established only two years apart —
Tiffany in 1837 and Patek Philippe in 1839 — both were founded on an
uncompromising commitment to craftsmanship. The success of both
companies is owed to this ongoing commitment to provide customers with
the finest quality and outstanding customer service.
The repeating clock was invented by the English cleric and inventor, the Reverend Edward Barlow in 1676.[2] His innovation was the rack and snail striking mechanism, which could be made to repeat easily and became the standard mechanism used in both clock and watch repeaters ever since. The best kind of repeating clocks were expensive to make; a separate train of wheels had to be added to the striking mechanism, to activate it one pulled a cord whereupon it would strike the hours and quarters, or even the hours and five minute divisions (five minute repeating). During the nineteenth century such clocks gradually went out of use. Due to cheap imports from France, Germany and America English clockmaking went into decline and with the advent of gas lighting repeating clocks became an unnecessary luxury.
Both Edward Barlow and Daniel Quare claimed the invention of the repeating watch, just before 1700.[3] Both applied for a patent on it, which was decided in favor of Quare in 1687. Repeater watches were much harder to make than repeater clocks; fitting the bells, wire gongs and complicated striking works into a pocketwatch movement was a feat of fine watchmaking. So repeating watches were expensive luxuries and status symbols.
Whereas repeating watches made in the eighteenth century struck a bell mounted in the back of the case, during the nineteenth century wire gongs were invariably employed as they took up less space. These appear to have been invented by the Swiss around 1800. Another type of repeating watch made during the period 1750–1820 was the dumb repeating watch, these had the two hammers for hours and quarters striking blocks within the case which made a dull sounding thud which could be felt in the hand.
Generally, repeating watches strike the hours and quarters, although the best London made eighteenth century repeating mechanisms (motions) were made using the Stockten system, named after the original inventor Matthew Stockten (known also as Stockdon or Stogden) who worked for the famous makers Daniel Quare and George Graham. These were made to strike the hours, quarters and half quarters (7.5 mins). From around 1750 watches this system was modified to repeat the hours, quarters and minutes (the minute repeater), the famous London maker John Ellicott appears to have been the first to produce these in numbers. During the nineteenth century following the improvements made by A.L. Breguet, the minute repeating mechanism became much more common but still to be found only in the best watches as it was expensive to make.
Repeating watches, as luxuries, survived the introduction of electric lighting and luminous watch dials in the early 1900s, and repeaters are still found in the most expensive complicated watches, although such mechanical exercises are made by the Swiss for purely commercial reasons as their purpose is in the present day completely redundant.
Minute repeater
The minute repeater works like the quarter repeater, with the addition that, after the hours and quarter hours are sounded, the number of minutes since the last quarter hour are sounded. This requires three different sounds to distinguish hours, quarters, and minutes. Often the hours are signaled by a low tone, the quarters are signaled by a sequence of two tones (“ding-dong”), and the minutes by a high tone. For example, if the time is 2:49 then the minute repeater will sound 2 low tones representing 2 hours, 3 sequence tones representing 45 minutes, and 4 high tones representing 4 minutes: “dong, dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding, ding, ding, ding”…
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& Handling
Item will be shipped to confirmed address .
Via International Air Mail. Delivery from Europe.
Cost:
$35-$75 (Services EMS with tracking, delivery takes as a usual 3-14 business days)
$150 ( DHL service with insurance)
Policy
I guarantee you complete satisfaction with all my items. If you receive an item you did not order or if an item you ordered is received damaged or defective, I will refund you the price you paid for it or replace it with identical one.
NO OTHER REASON FOR RETURNING EXCEPT THE ABOVE MENTIONED IS CONSIDERED!
The item should come to the my address within 30 days after you received it. After 30 days we will no longer be responsible and the item won’t be taken back! Item for returning must have the original tags and packing, otherwise it won’t be accepted.
This beautiful and fully restored men’s watch winds and sets smoothly while keeping accurate time.
Because of the vintage nature of the watch I cannot guarantee its absolute time keeping accuracy even if they are in good running condition and in some rare occasions may require additional adjustment.
If You are not satisfied by Your purchase, please communicate with me, and we together it is obligatory to discuss and we shall resolve any created situation.
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