13,800 HKD
Courvoisier Frères, La Chaux-de-Fonds, " Modernista", circa 1910. Unusual 9 ct. gold keyless digital jumping hour watch with flying back minute hand. Swiss Patent No. 27838, registered on 5 May 1903 by Gabriel Lopez Montaras, Saragos. Three body, "bassine et filets", engine-turned. Silver gilt cuvette. Silvered, engine-turned with aperture for the jumping digital hour, half moon sector for minutes and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "spade" hand.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1996-06-03