106,200 CHF
For Alfred Nobel “Minute Repeater & Chronograph” Le Roy & Fils, Hgers. De La Marine, Palais Royal, 13&15 GALie Montpensier, Paris, 57, New Bond Street, London, No. 55786. Made circa 1880, formerly the property of Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), the founder of the Nobel Prizes. Very fine and historically important, 18K gold, minute-repeating, keyless pocket watch with chronograph and short gold mesh fob. Four-body, “bassine”, polished, engine-turned back cover with monogram “AN”. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and concentric fifths of a second track with Arabic five minute/second numerals, subsidiary seconds. Yellow gold “spade” hands. 43 mm., 19’’’, frosted gilt, 29 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band, chronograph button in the crown. Cuvette signed. Diam. 51 mm. Property of a Scandinavian Collector
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
