$2,596
“Minute-Repeater” Touchon & Co. , Genève, No. 10312. Made circa 1910. Very fine and rare, “knife edge”, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold dress watch with “Extra” adjustment. Three-body, “bassine”, solid, polished, concealed hinge. Matte silver with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. Cal. 18’’’, “Extra”, maillechort, “fausses côtes” decoration, 32 jewels, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, adjusted, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial signed, case and movement numbered. Diam. 48 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-06-14