5,000 CHF
PINK GOLD MINUTE REPEATER J. Meylan-Truan, Le Sentier, Swiss, No. 7864. Made circa 1890. Fine, keyless, minute repeating, 18K pink gold pocket watch. Four-body, bassine, polished. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the technical details. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Gold Louis XV hands. 19''', rhodium plated, fausses-côtes decoration, 19 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. Movement signed under the hour hammer "Concisas Brevitas", the trade name of J. Meylan-Truan. Notes DIAM. 55 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2014-03-16
