LeCoultre Chatelaine watch pocket watch, 1889
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
1889
Maker / issuer
LeCoultre
A gold and pearls "Boule de Gèneve" (Geneva ball) with matching chatelaine, Switzerland. Geneva balls are a type of pendant watch mainly intended for women. They usually came with a matching brooch, chain or chatelaine. Winding by rotating the hemisphere containing the dial and setting by depressing the cylindrical-shaped button while rotating the said hemisphere. Winding system by Marius Lecoultre of Geneva, Swiss patent 114, 12 January 1889. Documented from an openly licensed real-object photograph on Wikimedia Commons; only the details stated by that source are recorded here. Remaining specifications are marked research required rather than estimated.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Gold (as described on the source photograph page)
Design
- Case type
- Chatelaine watch
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Escapement type not documented; requires movement examination or a horological reference.
- Jewel count and calibre not documented.
- Serial-number dating, case dimensions and weight remain untranscribed.
- No catalogue reference number is asserted; standard horological catalogues have not been transcribed for this specimen.