6,844 CHF
“Thin Minute Repeater” Paul Ditisheim, La Chaux de Fonds, No. 28348. Made circa 1910. Very fine, thin and elegant, minute-repeating, hunting-cased, 18K gold keyless dress watch. Four-body, “bassine”, polished, the back cover with concealed hinge. Hinged gold cuvette. Matte gilt, champlevé Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds, engine-turned center. Blued steel Breguet hands. 17’’’, rhodium-plated, inscribed “Grand Prix, Paris 1900”, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and case signed. Diam. 48 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-11-11
