$920
"Modernista", Courvoisier Frères, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Swiss. Produced circa 1910 for "Cigarillos Excelsior", for the South American market. Interesting and unusual, pink gold-filled, digital jumping-hour dress watch with retrograde minute hand. Four-body,"demi-bassine", engine-turned back cover with blank shield, gilt hinged cuvette etched in Art Nouveau style. Guilloché silver, above sector with painted Arabic numerals for the retrograde minute indication, below aperture for the hours, subsidiary seconds dial. Notes This watch is part of a series ordered by "Cigarillos Excelsior" and destined to be given to their best customers. Gabriel Lopez Mantaras patented the design.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-05-26
