'Bone Watch' Mikhail Semyonovitch Bronnikov. Made circa 1865. Fine and extremely rare watch entirely made of bone. Accompanied by the original carved bone chain, hook and key. | Important Collectors' Wristwatches, Pocket Watches & Clocks | Geneva, Hotel Noga Hilton, 16th October 2005
?Bone Watch? Mikhail Semyonovitch Bronnikov. Made circa 1865. Fine and extremely rare watch entirely made of bone. Accompanied by the original carved bone chain, hook and key., CHF 25,000 - 30,000 EUR 16,000 - 20,000 / USD 20,000 - 25,000Sold: CHF 34,500 C. Double-body, hinged back cover, polished, bezels with turned ribs at the edges, a small circle in the center. Chain: single and double links, carved from bone, 8 mm ring-links. D. Bone with Arabic numerals on circular cartouches, subsidiary seconds. Bone hands. M. Entirely made of bone with pinned bone bridges, excluding the main-spring, balance-spring and pivots, with going barrel, cylinder escapement with bone staff, plain bone three-arm balance, bone index regulator. Back cover signed in Cyrillic. Diam. 50 mm.Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...
Geneva, Hotel Noga Hilton, Oct 16, 2005
LOT 41 ?Bone Watch? Mikhail Semyonovitch Bronnikov. Made circa 1865. Fine and extremely rare watch entirely made of bone. Accompanied by the original carved bone chain, hook and key.
CHF 25,000 - 30,000 EUR 16,000 - 20,000 / USD 20,000 - 25,000
Sold: CHF 34,500
C. Double-body, hinged back cover, polished, bezels with turned ribs at the edges, a small circle in the center. Chain: single and double links, carved from bone, 8 mm ring-links. D. Bone with Arabic numerals on circular cartouches, subsidiary seconds. Bone hands. M. Entirely made of bone with pinned bone bridges, excluding the main-spring, balance-spring and pivots, with going barrel, cylinder escapement with bone staff, plain bone three-arm balance, bone index regulator. Back cover signed in Cyrillic. Diam. 50 mm.
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