16,200 HKD
Chronographe - Répétition à Quarts Swiss, “Chronographe - Répétition à Quarts”, case No. 77336. Made circa 1890. Fine, large, hunting-cased, keyless, quarter-repeating, 18K pink gold pocket watch with chronograph. To be sold without reserve Four-body, “bassine et filets”, solid, engine-turned with polished borders, the front cover with vacant cartouche. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with technical details and prize medals. White enamel with painted fancy Arabic numerals, outer minute track, outermost fifth of a second chronograph divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. Gilt Louis XV hands. Cal. 19’’’, frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a push-button in the band, centrifugal governor, visible chronograph work. Case and cuvette numbered. Diam. 56 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-27
