4,025 CHF
“Imperial Presentation” Paul Buhre, No. 4122, the movement made by Le Coultre & Co. Made for the Russian Court, circa 1900. Fine and rare 14K gold and enamel hunting-cased keyless presentation quarter-repeating pocket watch. Four-body, "bassine et filets", polished, the front with applied gold Imperial Eagle with blue enamel ribbon, gold hinged cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold "spade" hands. 20’’’, frosted gilt, 29 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band. Cuvette signed in Cyrillic, movement signed Le Coultre & Co. beneath the hammers. Diam. 53 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-10-16
