16,800 HKD
Quarter Repeating with Chronograph Tempora (Le Phare), Le Locle & La Chaux de Fonds, No. 34213. Made circa 1910. Fine, large, quarter-repeating, 14K pink gold hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with chronograph. To be sold without reserve Four-body, "bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with exhibition prize medals. White enamel, bold Arabic numerals, outer minute track and fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold Louis XV hands. Notes Le Phare The company was founded as Guye & Barbezat, the founders were Charles Barbezat-Baillot (1847-1938) and Henry Guye (1838-1877). In 1888, the firm's name was changed to Le Phare, being the registered name of their complicated watches. In 1900, Barbezat-Baillot advertised their brands that year as: La Locloise; l'Esperanto; Le Phare; Tempora and La Volapuk. Barbezat-Baillot was a member of the jury at the Brussels Universal Exhibition in 1897 and at Liege in 1905.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-27
