283,200 HKD
"Watch with 8 Complications" Louis Brandt Frères, La Chaux de Fonds, No. 4297. Made circa 1900. Very fine and very rare, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K gold, hunting-cased pocket watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, lunar calendar, chronograph and instantaneous central minute register. Four-body, "bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette. Matte silver with applied yellow gold faceted baton indexes, outer minute track and fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five minute numerals, subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months and four-year cycle, seconds concentric with lunar calendar, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold "épée" hands. 45 mm., rhodium-plated, "fausses cotes" decoration, 36 jewels, counterpoisedstraight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Case punched with Louis Brandt Frères mark "LBF". Diam. 57 mm. Notes The complications of this watch are: - Day - Date - Month - Four-year cycle - Moon phase and lunar calendar - Chronograph - Register - Repeat In 1894 the brand “Omega” saw the light, with the greek letter “W”. The production grew to 600 units per day in 1900 and gave an entirely new dimension to the company “Louis Brandt & Frères”. It had become: “A Watch Brand Conquering the World”. Since then, Omega has created the most remarkable wristwatches, participated in a large number of
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-11-25
