12,650 CHF
Labor Omnia Vincit Victor Kullberg, London, No. 9508, hallmarked 1931-32. Very fine and very rare 18K gold and enamel hunting-cased keyless five minute-repeating watch with chronograph with 30-minute register and with regulator dial. 43 mm, frosted gilt, half plate, jeweled to the center (20 jewels, lateral counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws, freesprung Breguet balance spring, diamond endstone, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Signed on dial and movement.Diam. 53 mm Notes A rare watch on the account of its dial, complications and high finish. Kullberg was at the time considered the best chronometer maker in England. His chronometers won more prizes at the Greenwich Observatory timing contests than those of any other maker.r.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-10-11
