12,500 CHF
HENRY CAPT – DUAL TIME ZONE CHRONOGRAPH – FOR THE ITALIAN DUCAL FAMILY CARAFA Henry Capt, Genève, ‘Chronometre Chronographe Deux Tours D’Heures’, No. 33948. Made circa 1880. Extremely fine and very rare, independently adjustable dual time zone, 18K pink gold and enamel keyless pocket watch with chronograph and gold wheel train. Four-body, bassine et filets, polished, the back decorated with the finely painted on enamel coat of arms of the Carafa family beneath a Ducal coronet and the motto ‘Hoc Fac et Vives Sic Nunc Sic Semper’, the interior engraved with the technical details, button in the crown for start/stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, two independently adjusable meantime dials, at 3 with Arabic numerals, at 9 with radial Roman numerals, each with outer minute track, outermost fifths of a second chronograph divisions with Arabic five-second numerals, concentric chronograph seconds track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. 19’’’, nickel plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, gold wheel train, counterpoised and calibrated straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature and meantime adjustment screws, the balance cut far from the arm, Breguet palladium balance spring with overcoil, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 52 mm. Notes HENRY CAPT An important and highly esteemed firm, originally established by Henry Daniel Capt (1773- 1843). In
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-03-17
