28,000 HKD
SWISS MINUTE REPEATER & CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD Swiss, No. 2354. Made for the English market, circa 1900. Fine, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch with chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register. Four-body, bassine, polished, co-axial button in the crown for the start/stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with Arabic numerals at 5 minute intervals and 1/5th of a seconds divisions, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel spade hands. Frosted gilt, 17 jewels, three-quarter plate, jeweled to the third wheel, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, chronograph work on the dial plate. Case numbered. Diam. 53 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-10-19
