Sold for:
$16,100
$16,100
“Minute-Repeater” Albert H. Potter & Co. Geneva, No. 305. Made circa 1900. Very fine and rare, hunting-cased, keyless, minuterepeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch. Three-body, "bassine", solid, polished. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. Cal. 43 mm. (19’’’), maillechort, 29 jewels, some in screwed gold châtons, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, “swan-neck” micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial and movement. Diam. 52 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-12-07