34,500 HKD
E. LeCoultre, Swiss, No. 2482, made for Lemoine Fils, 356, rue Saint Honoré, Paris, circa 1900.Fine 18K gold keyless minute repeating watch. Four-body, massive, “bassine et filets”, polished, the back engraved with a monogram in an Art Nouveau pattern. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with Roman numerals, outer Arabic minutes ring and sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel “fleurs-de-lys” hands. Glazed, 20’’’, gilt brass, 29 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring with special micrometric index adjusted by means of an eccentric cam. Repeating on gongs with slide inhe band.Signed on the cuvette.Diam. 52 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2000-06-05
