10,000 CHF
HENRY CAPT MINUTE REPEATING POCKET WATCH GOLD Ls. Gallopin & Cie, Successors de Henri Capt, Genève, 'Répétition à Minutes', No. 46501. Made circa 1890. Very fine and very rare, small minute-repeating, keyless 18K gold pocket watch. Four-body, bassine, polished, semi-concealed hinges. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary sunk seconds dial. Gold spade hands. 27mm. rhodium plated, 31 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Notes Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 34 mm. THICKNESS 9 mm. To be sold without reserve
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2016-05-15