56,250 HKD
DENT QUARTER REPEATING WATCH YELLOW GOLD Dent, Watchmaker to The Queen, London, 33 Cockspur Street, London, No. 30544. Made circa 1848. Very fine, heavy, 18K gold, quarter-repeating keyless pocket watch C. Four-body, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. M. 43 mm, frosted gilt plate, jewels in screwed chatons, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with terminal curve, swan-neck regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and movement signed, case stamped EN. Diam. 55 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-06-22
