59,800 HKD
“Alpine Lakeside” Trusty (Schwob Freres, La Chaux-de- Fonds), No. 63758. Made for the Chinese market circa 1915. Very fine gold and painted on enamel, pearl-set hunting cased keyless minute-repeating watch with chronograph. Five-body, “bassine et filets”, both covers in translucentImperial blue enamel over “sunray” engine-turning, the frontpainted with a portrait of a lady, the back with a rural landscape,pearl-set bezels, gilt hinged cuvette over glazed gold bezel forviewing the movement. Translucent white enamel, radialRoman numerals in gilt framed cartouche, silver and gold giltouter minute divisions, outermost chronograph track dividedinto fifths with radial Arabic five seconds, sunk subsidiary seconds.Polished steel “spade” hands. 19.5’’’, frosted gilt,straight line lever escapement, monometallic screw balancewith self–compensating Breguet balance spring, repeating ongongs through a pusher in the band.Signed on the dial case with London prestige marks.Diam. 53 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-07-10
