9,000 CHF
Minute Repeating & Chronograph J. J. Badollet & Cie, Geneve, No. 89625. Made circa 1910. Very fine and rare, large 18K yellow gold, minute-repeating, keyless pocket watch with chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register. Four-body, bassine, polished, wide curved bezel, concealed hinge. Hinged gold cuvet te. Whi te enamel , Arabi c numerals, outer minute track and fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel spade hands. Notes Badollet & Cie Horologists and makers of watch cases, the company was registered on November 1, 1880, under the number 43. They received the 1st prize at the Observatory contest for chronometry in 1872 (with 267.9 points out of 350); 1873 (with 229 points out of 350); and in 1874 (with 264 points out of 350); and in 1874-75 (with 213 points out of 350). In 1874, Badollet tied with H.R. Ekegrén for those contestants presenting a minimum of three chronometers.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-11-14
