$2,750
SWISS QUARTER REPEATER & CHRONOGRAPH Swiss, No. 202568. Made circa 1910. Fine quarter-repeating, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased pocket watch set with diamonds and rubies with chronograph. To be sold without reserve Four-body, polished, button at 2 for the chronograph, the front cover with a horse and rider and a large diamond and ruby set horseshoe. 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. Blued steel spade hands. Rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, jeweled, counterpoised straight-line 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, column wheel chronograph exposed. Case numbered. Diam. 56 mm
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-12-07
