Jules Huguenin Droz Double-Train Foudroyante Seconds Pocket Watch

Inventory number: PW1809030

Made in Switzerland circa 1880, 56mm. 14K gold hunter case, white enamel dial with a subsidiary quarter-seconds dial at 6. Double train movement with 1/4 foudroyante seconds functions. The watchmaker Jules Huguenin worked in Switzerland’s Jura Mountain area during the late 19th century. He specialized in complicated watches with double train, split-seconds chronograph watches, and watches with a foudroyante or diablotine feature.

Foudroyante:

On a Chronograph, a hand that makes one rotation every second, pausing four, five, even eight times to indicate quarters, fifths, or eighths of a second. Also called foudroyante.