200,000 HKD
Retrograde Perpetual Calendar & Double Moon Phases Attributed to Marius LeCoultre, Genève, No. 15464. Made circa 1890. Extremely fine and equally rare, 18K rose gold, huntingcased, keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar, retrograde date, symmetrical double moon phases and gold wheel train. Four-body, “bassine”, polished, correctors for the moon phases and the date in the band. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary dials for the months, days of the week and seconds, double aperture for the moon phases flanking the 12, retrograde date sector below. Blued steel spade hands. 20’’’, rhodium-plated, striped and spiral decoration, 17 jewels, some in screwed gold chatons, wolf’s tooth winding, escape wheel upper pivot with gold cap, gold wheel train, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, large diameter cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator. Case numbered Diam. 55 mm. Notes The present watch is of extremely high quality and is particularly interesting because it exhibits a very rarely found and sophisticated horological feature. The perpetual calendar with retrograde date is extremely uncommon and was made by very few workshops, among them Breguet and LeCoultre. The maker Marius LeCoultre specialized in pocket watches with retrograde date and perpetual calendar and it is very likely that the maker of this watch was
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09
