76,800 HKD
Minute Repeating & Chronograph Chronometer Quality Swiss. No. 1906. Made circa 1910. Very fine, 18K pink gold, minute-repeating, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with chronograph, the movement with the poinçon de Geneve for chronometer quality. Four-body, bassine, polished, button at 12 for the start/ stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph. Hinged goldrimmed glazed cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five minute/second numerals, outermost fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. Black steel spade hands. 19’’’, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 35 jewels, stamped twice with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with peripheral temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, visible chronograph work. Case numbered. Diam. 52 mm. Notes This watch is of extremely high quality and in very good condition. It is very unusual to find a watch with minute-repeating and chronograph that bears the poinçon de Geneve mark on the movement, signifying that this watch has been awarded chronometer standard rating. Any added complications in a watch mechanism can adversely affect the timekeeping, thus the present watch is highly unusual in achieving chronometer standard timekeeping.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-06-25
