15,000 CHF
A. LECOULTRE MINUTE REPEATER AND SPLIT-SECOND CHRONOGRAPH POCKET WATCH YELLOW GOLD A. LeCoultre, Geneva, No. 2586. Made for the American market, circa 1900. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, hunting cased, minute- repeating keyless pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph. Four-body, "bassine et filets". Hinged gold cuvette, glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. White enamel, radial Arabic numerals, outer minute track and red painted Arabic five minutes/seconds numerals, outermost seconds divided into fifths, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel pear hands. 19''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 36 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Notes Dial and movement signed. DIAM. 55 mm. THICKNESS 18 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2016-05-15
