5,040 CHF
Minute-Repeater Swiss, No. 13877. Made for the English market, circa 1920. Very fine, minute-repeating, 18K gold, hunting cased, keyless pocket watch with Breguet numerals. Four-body, “bassine”, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. Matte silver with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Black spade hands. 19’’’, frosted gilt, three-quarter plate, 15 jewels, some in screwed gold chatons, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Diam. 52 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-10-04