$13,750
JAMES PICARD GRANDE & PETITE SONNERIE MINUTE REPEATER YELLOW GOLD James Picard, Geneva, No. 10474. Made circa 1890. Very fine and very rare hunting-cased, keyless, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with grande and petite sonnerie and minute repeater. Four-body, bassine, polished. Hinged gold cuvette over a transparent dust cover. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blue steel Breguet hands. 43 mm, rhodium-plated, double train with differential winding, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, striking the hours and quarters on three gongs with three hammers, Silence/Sonnerie selection lever on the band, repeating activated by a slide in the band. Dial signed. DIAM. 55 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-04-10
