$4,956
“Répétition Minutes - Chronographe” Humbert-Ramuz & Co. , Chaux-de-Fonds, “Répétition Minutes - Chronographe”, No. 77126. Made in the late 1890s. Very fine and rare, large, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with chronograph. Four-body, “bassine”, solid, engine-turned covers, front with a monogram, polished band, gold hinged cuvette with inscription. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and outermost chronograph divisions, subsidiary sunk seconds dial. Gold “spade” hands. Cal. 21’’’, nickel, “fausses côtes” decoration, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, “swan-neck” micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 58 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-06-14
