35,000 HKD
TOUCHON & CO. MINUTE REPEATER YELLOW GOLD Touchon & Co., Genève, No. 136458. Made circa 1919. Fine and rare, thin, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold watch. Four-body, bassine, polished, semi-concealed hinge. Hinged gold cuvette with dedication. Matte champagne with black bold Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel Breguet hands. 36 mm, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 5 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and movement signed Touchon & Co., case signed Wittnauer & Co., Switzerland. Diam. 45 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-10-19
