Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, May 10, 2025
LOT 483
BORDIER, SWITZERLAND, POCKET WATCH, QUARTER-REPEATER, DECORATIVE DIAL, 18K YELLOW GOLD
CHF 2,000 - 4,000
HKD 19,000 - 38,000 / USD 2,500 - 4,900 / EUR 2,200 - 4,300
Sold: CHF 4,000
A very fine, 18k yellow gold, manual wind open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, “Directoire” pocket watch, quarter-repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs (activated by depressing the pendant). Enamel dial with suspended Breguet numerals, positioned in an engraved gold frame forming ogives, with, in the centre, a polychrome painting representing an allegory of the Arts in the form of a young woman drawing; blued steel Breguet hands.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Brand Bordier, Switzerland
Year Circa 1800
Case No. 4 381 (by “P&S”, Geneva)
Diameter 55 mm.
Caliber 20’’’, full plate, gilded brass, fusee and chain, verge escapement, monometallic balance (probably gold) and blued steel flat hairspring,pierced and engraved gilded continental “Louis XVI” cock, silver regulator disc; repeater work on the main plate, under the dial.
Weight 140 gr.
Signature Case
Accessories Box