Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010
LOT 338
Small Minute Repeating Watch Hunt & Roskell, 156 New Bond St., London, No. 13465, the movement almost certainly supplied by Audemars Piguet. The case with London hallmarks for 1889-1890. Very fine and very rare, small, minute-repeating, huntingcased, keyless 18K gold pocket watch.
HKD 24,000 - 36,000
USD 3,100 - 4,700 / EUR 2,400 - 3,600
Sold: HKD 81,250
C. Four-body, ?bassine et filets?, by Alfred Stram (master mark), polished, thief-proof swivel bow. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. M. 32 mm., 14???, frosted gilt three-quarter plate, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature and mean time adjustment screws, Breguet balance spring, the tail held by a polished steel stud screwed to the cock, diamond endstone, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band. Movement signed Hunt & Roskell. Diam. 41 mm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |
Notes
The firm of Hunt and Roskell had very close associations with the Swiss watch industry and often used Swiss movements for their precision watches.
Hunt & Roskell The firm was begun by gold and silversmith Paul Storr. In partnership with John Mortimer and John Samuel Hunt, he added the retailing of clocks and watches to his activities of selling gold and silver plate and jewelry in their New Bond Street premises. On December 31, 1838 the partnership was dissolved, business being continued by Mortimer with J.S. and J. Hunt as Mortimer & Hunt at 156 New Bond Street. In 1843 Mortimer retired and was replaced by Robert Roskell. The firm continued as Hunt & Roskell until they were bought by J.W. Benson in 1866. They also had premises in Manchester. The company made watches for the China trade and produced fine minute repeating watches and watches with spherically sprung spring-detent tourbillons. They exhibited at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867.