Pocket watch - souvenir of the 1905 Gordon Bennett Cup. - Lot 89

Pocket watch - souvenir of the 1905 Gordon Bennett Cup. Silver-plated pocket watch with double caseback - DUC chronometer. Breguet-type blued hands, Roman numeral hour markers, second hand at six o'clock. On the reverse, the pilot Théry and his mechanic at the wheel of his Brasier in the Rochefort bend - Gordon Bennett 1905 Edition FRAINIER-Modèle Déposé. Diameter : 50mm. In a case. Notes : The engraving on the back of the watch is taken from the photograph on the cover of the magazine "La vie au Grand Air" N. 347, May 5, 1905. The magazine's cover praised the 1905 edition of this competition, featuring a photo of THERY during the heats on the Rochefort bend. In 1905, the last of the six Gordon-Bennett Cup races took place in France, on July 5, on a 137 km mountain circuit in the Auvergne, near the town of Clermont-Ferrand. Frenchman Leon Théry, driving a 96hp Richard-Brasier, won for the second year running, repeating his feat! Bibliography : D. PASCAL, Objets de l'automobile à collectionner, Editions MDM / ETAI, 1998, figure p. 34 J. J. ZOLOMU, The Motor Car in Art, Automobile Quarterly Publications, 1990, figure p. 266