6,844 CHF
"Minute Repeater & Chronograph" B. Poitevin, Fabt, No. 45677, retailed by S. Fernandez Y cia Importadores, Buenos-Aries. Made for Ramon Gutierrez, circa 1900. Very fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with chronograph. To be sold without reserve Four body, massive, "bassine", polished, the front cover decorated with an applied gold monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute track and outermost fifths of a second divisions with red painted Arabic five minute numerals, subsidiary seconds with red numerals. Gold "Louis XV" hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13