70,800 HKD
“Thin Minute Repeater” C. H. Meylan, Brassus, No. 6076, retailed by Cartier. Made circa 1930. Very fine, thin and elegant, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold keyless dress watch. To be sold without reserve Matte silver with applied polished yellow gold Art Deco “cubiste” numerals, outer dot minute divisions and subsidiary seconds. Yellow gold “cathedrale” hands. 17.5’’’, 38 mm, rhodium plated, “fausses-cotes” 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, case numbered. Diam. 45 mm. Property of an American Lady
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
