Miniature Minute-Repeater Z

Miniature Minute-Repeater Z. Pantillon, La Chaux-de-Fonds, No. 1830. Made circa 1900. Very fine and very rare, miniature, minute-repeating, 18K gold and champleve enamel, keyless lady’s pendant watch with Alfred Reymond’s Swiss patent No. 12975, “mecanisme simplifié de repetition” of 1896 and Charles Emonot’s Swiss patent No. 12977, “perfectionnement aux mouvements de montres” of 1896. Four-body, “bassine”, polished, the front cover with a red, blue and white champlevé enamel monogram “FHB”. Hinged gold cuvette. Off-white enamel with blue Arabic numerals and red 12, outer gold dot minute divisions, blue subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands. 13’’’, frosted gilt, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs with two stacked hammers, activated by a slide on the band. Movement signed on the dial plate and engraved with the patent numbers 12975 & 7. Diam. 36 mm. Notes This watch uses two Swiss patents registered in 1896. The first, No. 12975 of October 13, 1896, is by Alfred Reymond, au Brassus and called “mecanisme simplifié de répétition”, in which the quarter and minute racks are in one plate. The second, No. 12977 of October 15, 1896, is by Charles Emonot à Sorvillier and called “perfectionnment aux mouvements de montres”, is for a system whereby the barrel can be removed from the movement for cleaning without disassembly of the entire movement.