150,000 HKD
Pink Gold Three-Hammer Minute Repeater Attributed to Audemars Frères, Geneva, No. 12726. Made circa 1890. Very fine, 18K pink gold, hunting-cased, keyless, minuterepeating pocket watch. Four-body, "bassine", polished. Gold hinged cuvette. Two-piece, white enamel, black Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. 44 mm, frosted gilt, 31 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Case numbered. Diam. 53 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-02-26