70,800 HKD
“Thin Minute Repeater” Paul Ditisheim, La Chaux de Fonds, No. 35397. The case with London import marks for 1910 – 1911. Very fine, thin and elegant, minute-repeating 18K gold and enamel keyless dress watch. Four-body, “bassine”, polished band, the bezel decorated with double white enamel lines, the back cover overlaid with Royal blue enamel over an engine-turned ground, white enamel line border to match the bezel. Hinged gold cuvette. Matte champagne, champlevé Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds, flinqué center. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. 18’’’, rhodium-plated, inscribed “Grand Prix, Paris 1900”, 31 jewels, 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. Dial and case signed. Diam. 47 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-11-25
