Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 240

GOLAY-LERESCHE SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD A.Golay-Leresche & Fils, Genève, 2 Rue de la Paix, Paris, No. 17829. Made circa 1890. Very fine and rare, keyless, hunting-cased, 18K pink gold pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and register.

Four-body, bassine, solid, polished, rectangular pushers on the band for the start/stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph and split-seconds function. Hinged gold cuvette, glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions with Arabic 5-minute/ seconds numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 18```, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line counterpoised and calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, white metal alloy Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible chronograph work.