66,000 HKD
Minute Repeater & Split-Seconds Chronograph – Regulator Dial Swiss, No. 15029. Made for the American market, circa 1880. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold, keyless pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and solid silver regulator dial. Four-body, “bassine et filets”, polished, bolt at 1 o’clock to lock the chronograph. Hinged gold-rimmed glazed cuvette to view the movement. Solid silver, regulator type, small dial at 12 with radial Roman numerals for the hours, outer minute track with red champlevé enamel five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds at 6. Blued steel double spade hands. 43 mm., 19’’’, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 32 jewels, counterpoised straightline lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, visible chronograph work. Diam. 52 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-08
