66,700 HKD
J. Ullmann & Co, Chaux-de-Fonds, Hong Kong, Shanghai & Tientsin, No. 85782, circa 1920. Very fine 18K gold hunting-cased, keyless, double-train, Grande Sonnerie Carillon clockwatch with “trip” minute-repeating. Five-body, “bassine et filets”, engine turned covers, reeded band, gold hinged cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary sunk seconds. Gold “spade” hands. 40 mm, rhodium-plated, “fausses côtes” decoration, 24 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, repeating and striking on three gongs, repeating via tripping small pushbutton at 6 o’clock, silence/stiking lever protruding from under the bezel at 1 o’clock.Signed on dial and case. Diam. 49 mm. Notes For a biography, see next lot.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-06-06
