$18,975
H. R. Ekegren made by E. Koehn, Genève, No. 78919, made for J.E. Caldwell & Co., Philadelphia, circa 1920. Very fine and rare, platinum, keyless, minute-repeating Art Deco dress watch with split-seconds chronograph and 60-minute register. Three-piece, “bassine”, polished, band with chronograph blocking bold at 1 o’clock. Silver, champlevé bold italic Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, minute register at 12, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. 38 mm (17’’’), rhodium plated, 38 jewels, 8 adjustments, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, split mechanism under the dial, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 54 mm
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-12-01
