35,400 HKD
"Minute Repeater Chronograph" Tempora (Le Phare), Le Locle & La Chaux de Fonds, No. 259617. Made circa 1915. Fine, large, minute-repeating, 18K gold hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with chronograph. Four-body,"bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute and fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. Notes Le Phare The company was founded as Guye & Barbezat, the founders were Charles Barbezat-Baillot (1847-1938) and Henry Guye (1838-1877). In 1888, the firm's name was changed to Le Phare, being the registered name of their complicated watches. In 1900, Barbezat-Baillot advertised their brands that year as: La Locloise; l'Esperanto; Le Phare; Tempora and La Volapuk. Barbezat-Baillot was a member of the jury at the Brussels Universal Exhibition in 1897 and at Liege in 1905.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-11-25
