82,600 CHF
“Triple Complication” B. Haas Jeune, Haas Neveux & Cie, Sucrs., Genève - Paris, No. 18752. Made circa 1905. Very fine and rare, keyless, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and splitseconds chronograph with 30-minute register. Four-body, “demi-bassine”, polished, the case back engraved with a foliate monogram, the inner edge of the band with engraved dedication, gold hinged cuvette engrave with the maker’s details and prize medals for Paris 1900, gold bolt at 2 o’clock to lock the chronograph, chronograph buttons in the band and winding crown. White enamel with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute track with gold painted Arabic five-minute/seconds numerals, outermost 1/5th seconds track calibrated from 0-300, four subsidiary dials for the days of the week, date, months of the leap year cycle concentric with 30-minute register, and subsidiary seconds, moon phase aperture. Gold “Louis XV” hands. Cal. 42 mm. (18’’’), stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, rhodium plated, “wavy line” decoration, 40 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, “swan-neck” micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band. Dial and case signed, case numbered. Diam. 52 mm. Notes Haas - B. Jeune & Cie. (1870-circa 1885). Paris, Genève, Besançon. One of the oldest manufactures of Switzerland, known for high quality watchmak
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-02
