A. HUGENIN (OR HUGONIN) Large pocket watch, minute-repeater, chronograph, triple date, moon phases; silver niello and pink gold | Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces & Jewels

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Hong Kong, Dec 05, 2021

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A. HUGENIN (OR HUGONIN)
Large pocket watch, minute-repeater, chronograph, triple date, moon phases; silver niello and pink gold

HKD 68,000 - 100,000

EUR 7,700 - 11,300 / CHF 8,100 - 11,900 / USD 8,800 - 12,900

Sold: HKD 137,500

Silver niello (0.900) and pink gold, hunting-case, keyless-winding, round-shaped, large pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 and six horological complications:

· Minute-repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs (activated by the slide located on the case-band at 6 o’clock)

· ¼ second chronograph (activated by the single olive-shaped push-piece located on the case-band at 12 o’clock)

· Half-instantaneous date of the month (subsidiary dial at 9 o’clock)

· Day of the week (subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock; indications given in English)

· Month of the year (subsidiary dial at 6 o’clock; indications given in English)

· Phases of the moon (aperture at 12 o’clock)

Cover and case-back engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) in niello-technique with foliage; on the cover, an inlaid pink gold motif representing a terrestrial globe surrounded by astronomical and scientific instruments.

White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals; blued steel “Breguet” hands.

Movement 20’’’, rhodium-plated, going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index-regulator; repeater work on the main plate, under the dial; chronograph work on the top plate.