$4,366
“Répétition à Minutes” Faivre Perrin, Locle, “Répétition à Minutes”, case No. 1110. Made for the Hispanic market circa 1900. Very fine, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold pocket watch with special dial. Four-body, “bassine et filets”, solid, engine-turned covers, monogrammed front, polished band, gold hinged cuvette with inscription. Matte silver, engraved and with applied multicolored gold floral ornaments, radial Roman numerals, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel “Louis XVI" hands. Cal. 19’’’, maillechort, “fausses côtes” decoration, 35 jewels, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Case signed and numbered. Diam. 58 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-03-28