26,400 HKD
Quarter-Repeating Lever Chronometer Ed. Gasser, Geneve, case No. 1904. Made circa 1915. Very fine, quarter-repeating, 18K yellow gold, hunting cased keyless pocket lever chronometer. To be sold without reserve Four-body, “bassine”, polished, the front cover with engraved foliate monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with dauphine numerals, outer minute track and red painted five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands. 19’’’, frosted gilt, stamped twice with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, 21 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 53 mm. Notes Poinçons de Genève The voluntary quality control of watches at the Geneva Observatory was established by law on November 6, 1886. Conditions were laid down for the attribution and stamping of the Poinçons de Genève, punch-marks representing the coat-of-arms of the city of Geneva. Pocket watches and wristwatches which carry the Geneva Mark, considered the equivalent of the "Bulletin Officiel de Marche", stamped on a bridge and on the main plate of the movement, may be officially termed "chronometers".
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-27
