62,500 CHF
HENRY MOSER - "LES ENFANTS RUSSES" - EXCEPTIONAL RUSSIAN MARKET MINUTE-REPEATING & PERPETUAL CALENDAR WATCH MADE FOR PRINCE SERGE ALEXANDROVITCH DOLGOROUKY Hy. Moser & Cie, (Le Locle & St. Petersburg), No. 25906. Made for Russian Prince Serge Alexandrovitch Dolgorouky, circa 1913. Extremely fine and very rare, large and heavy, minute-repeating, 18K gold, painted on enamel and diamond-set keyless hunting cased pocket watch with perpetual calendar and moon phases. Four-body, bassine et filets, polished with engraved borders, band and bow, the front cover decorated with the finely painted on enamel coat of arms of the Dolgorouky family, rose-cut diamond-set banner above and the date 1913 below, the back cover with a scene of a boy and girl in winter costume finely painted on enamel and set with rose-cut diamonds against a polished background. Hinged gold cuvette with champlevé enamel signatures, glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, date, days of the week and months with leap-year indication (in Cyrillic), aperture for the moon phases with lunar calendar at the edge. Blued steel Breguet hands. 21''', rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, the fork and escape wheel with gold jewel caps, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs a
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2014-03-16
