24,000 HKD
Thin Minute-Repeater Touchon & Co. , Genève, in partnership with Wittnauer & Co., Switzerland, No. 134767. Made in the 1920s. Fine and rare, thin, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold dress watch. Four-body, “demi-bassine”, polished, semi-concealed hinge. Hinged gold cuvette. Matte champagne with black champleve dauphine numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Black Breguet hands. Cal. 17’’’, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 5 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and movement signed Touchon & Co., movement and case also signed Wittnauer & Co., Switzerland. Diam. 46 mm. Notes Touchon & Co. Watch manufacture which was first established in Sécheron and later in Petit-Saconnex (districts of Geneva), and subsequently at 1, place de la Fusterie. The trademark was registered on February 2, 1907, under No. 21652. The manufacture, which produced high quality watches, merged with Agassiz Watch Co. S.A., in order to launch on the market extra slim watches of 16 1/2’’’- 17/12th, 15/12th, 10/12th, and even of 10’’’- 10/12. This latter movement, fitted in its case, could be concealed into a 20 dollars coin and was awarded the Gold Medal at the Paris Exhibition in 1889 and, in 1910, received the highest distinction in Brussels. The company produced these watches for Tiffany
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-08
