112,100 HKD
“Very Small Quarter-Repeater” Breguet, No 3713, movement by Louis Audemars, No. 11714. Sold to Madame De Barros on the 14th of January, 1890, for 1550 francs. Very fine and rare, very small, 18K gold, hunting- cased, keyless quarter-repeating lady’s pendant watch. Four-body, "bassine et filets", polished. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds. Yellow gold "spade" hands. 26 mm, 12’’’, frosted gilt, 29 jewels, Audemars keyless winding, wolf’s-tooth winding wheels, pin-set, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued-steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Signed and numbered on the cuvette for Breguet, movement and case numbered by Louis Audemars. Diam. 33 mm. Property of a North American Gentleman
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
