$2,950
Edouard Koehn, Genève, No. 78570. Made for A. Maurer circa 1900. Very fine, thin, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold dress watch. Four-body, “demi-bassine”, solid, polished, gold hinged cuvette. White enamel with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel hands. Cal. 19’’’, frosted gilt, 33 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial and case signed: “A. Maurer”, movement signed: “Ed. Koehn, Genève”. Diam. 51 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-03-28