$3,750
SWISS MINUTE REPEATER Swiss, No. 41349. Made circa 1890. Very fine, minute-repeating, 18K gold, hunting cased, keyless pocket watch. Four-body, bassine, polished, engine-turned case back and cover, front cover with engraved circular cartouche, hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute ring with fi ve-minute Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds dial. Gold Louis XV hands. 42 mm, nickel, 20 jewels some in gold screwed chatons, wolf’s tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Numbered on cuvette. Diam. 52 mm. Thickness 16 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-06-12
