64,900 HKD
“Thin Minute Repeater” C. H. Meylan, Brassus, No. 6069, retailed by Cartier. Made circa 1930. Very fine, thin and elegant, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold keyless dress watch. To be sold without reserve Brushed silver with applied polished yellow gold Arabic quarter-hour numerals and baton indexes, outer dot minute track, subsidiary seconds. Yellow gold “alpha” hands. 17.5’’’, 38 mm, rhodium-plated, “faussescotes” decoration, 29 jewels, some in screwed gold chatons, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial signed for Cartier, movement signed by Meylan. Diam. 45 mm. Property of an American Lady
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
