51,920 CHF
“Perpetual Calendar, Minute Repeater” LeCoultre & Co. , Le Sentier & Geneve, No. 5800. Made circa 1890. Very fine and rare, large, minuterepeating, astronomic, 18K pink gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, lunar calendar and chronograph. Four-body, “bassine”, solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette, glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, concentric fifths of a seconds divisions and calibrated 0-300, subsidiary dials for the months and leap-year cycle, days of the week, date, seconds with aperture for the moon phases, lunar calendar at the edge. Blued steel “spade” hands. 20’’’, rhodium-plated, 31 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Movement signed under one hammer. Diam. 58.5 mm. Notes It is very rare to find a watch with such a great number of complications, and in such perfect condition.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
