FUREUR. AN UNUSUAL AND RARE SILVER OPENFACE TOURBILLON KEYLESS LEVER WATCH WITH REGULATOR STYLE DIAL AND CENTRE SECONDS
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FUREUR. AN UNUSUAL AND RARE SILVER OPENFACE TOURBILLON KEYLESS LEVER WATCH WITH REGULATOR STYLE DIAL AND CENTRE SECONDS

SIGNED FUREUR, TOURBILLON, CASE NOS. 11 AND 609, SWISS PATENT NO. 34'394, CIRCA 1905

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FUREUR. AN UNUSUAL AND RARE SILVER OPENFACE TOURBILLON KEYLESS LEVER WATCH WITH REGULATOR STYLE DIAL AND CENTRE SECONDS
SIGNED FUREUR, TOURBILLON, CASE NOS. 11 AND 609, SWISS PATENT NO. 34'394, CIRCA 1905
Keyless jewelled lever movement, one minute tourbillon carriage visible through a glazed aperture to the centre of the hinged case back, white enamel regulator style dial with eccentric time display with Arabic numerals, centre seconds, engine-turned circular case, dial and movement signed
53 mm. diam.

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US$3,000-5,000

Swiss Patent No. 34394 was granted to Louis & Edouard Fallet et Fils of St. Imier for the design of this tourbillon in 1905. Other firms were able to manufacture this under license.

An almost identical watch is in the Science Museum London Collections (reg. no. 1938-318), illustrated in Reinhard Meis, Das Tourbillon, p.313, pl.455-457.