49,560 HKD
“5-Minute-Repeater” Jules Jürgensen, Copenhagen, No. 10150. Made in Switzerland, circa 1870. Very fine and rare, hunting-cased, keyless, 5-minuterepeating 18K yellow gold pocket watch. Four-body, "bassine et filets", solid, engineturned covers, coin-edge band, hinged and glazed gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. Cal. 18’’’, “maillechort”, 35 jewels, fork and escape jewels in gold caps, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 52 mm. Property of an Italian Gentleman
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02