118,000 HKD
“Lady’s Minute Repeater” Touchon & Co. , Geneva, No. 36313. Made circa 1914. Fine and rare, small, 18K yellow gold lady’s keyless minuterepeating pendant watch. Four-body, “bassine”, polished, concealed hinge, wire-lugs, the back engraved with a monogram. Dedicated hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. 12’’’1/2, rhodium plated, “fausses cotes” decoration, 27 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with five adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-23