3,840 CHF
Quarter Repeating H. Redard & Fils, Geneve, No. 21620. Made circa 1890. Fine and rare, quarter-repeating, 18K rose gold, keyless lady’s pendant watch. Four-body, “bassine” polished. Hinged gold cuvette with engine-turned border. Off-white enamel with blue Arabic numerals, outer gold dot minute divisions, subsidiary seconds. Gold Louis XV hands. 13’’’, frosted gilt, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed. Diam. 33 mm. Notes H. Redard & Fils Founded in 1844 at 12, Rue du Mont-Blanc, Geneva. Specialised in complicated and precision watches, exhibited at the Chicago Exhibition of 1893 and the Geneva National Exhibition in 1896.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-10-04
