5,000 CHF
PAUL BUHRE - PINK GOLD MINUTE REPEATER Paul Buhrè, St. Petersbourg, Swiss, No. 8879. Made for the Russian market, circa 1870. Fine, minute repeating, hunting-cased 14K (56 Zolotniks) pink gold pocket watch. Four-body, bassine et filets, engine-turned with polished borders and band, the front cover with vacant cartouche. Hinged gold cuvette engraved "Chronometer Jsokrone". White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Gold stone-set hands. 20''', nickel plated, 29 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Notes Dial and movement signed, case numbered. DIAM. 54 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2014-03-16
