5,900 CHF
“Minute Repeater, Chronograph” Swiss, No. 27313. Made circa 1910. Fine and rare, large, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K rose gold pocket watch with chronograph, 30-minute register, tachometer and telemeter. Four-body, "pomme et filet", solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette, glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and fifths of a second chronograph divisions, Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, outermost red tachometer and blue telemeter graduations, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register. Gold "Louis XV" hands. Cal. 20’’’, rhodium-plated, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible chronograph mechanism operated by a co-axial button ib the crown, repeating on two hammers on two gongs activated by a push-button in the band, centrifugal governor to regulate the speed of repeating. Diam. 58 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-10-14
