13,750 CHF
GOLAY FIVE-MINUTE REPEATER & SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH - PINK GOLD A. Golay-Leresche & Fils, Genève, 2 Rue de la Paix, Paris, No. 16885, retailed by Golay Fils & Stahl, Genève. Made circa 1890. Very fine and rare, keyless, hunting-cased, five-minute- repeating, 18K pink gold pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph. Four-body, "bassine," solid, polished, rectangular pushers on the band for the start/stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph and split-seconds function. Hinged gold cuvette, glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. White enamel with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions with red Arabic 5-minute/seconds numerals. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 18''', rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 35 jewels, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Notes Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 50 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2014-03-16
