Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, Jul 23, 2020
LOT 76
Charles Barbezat-Baillot for Levy Hermanos
Heavy pocket watch, made for the Chinese market, minuterepeater, chronograph; 18K yellow gold, enamel and pearls
Heavy pocket watch, made for the Chinese market, minuterepeater, chronograph; 18K yellow gold, enamel and pearls
HKD 144,000 - 192,000
CHF 18,000 - 24,000 / USD 19,100 - 25,400
18K yellow gold, hunting-case, keyless-winding, round-shaped, heavy pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 and two horological complications:
• Minute-repeater on two steel gongs by two hammers (activated by the rectangular push-piece located on the case-band at 12 o’clock)
• 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the single olive-shaped pushpiece located on the case-band at 2 o’clock)
Cover and case-back Royal blue flinqué enamelled (translucent enamel over guilloché engine-turning) with a scene showing on each side a young woman accompanied by a young girl, on the cover, with flowers, on the background, playing music; bezels set with half-pearls.
Case-band engraved and blue enamelled in champlevé with decoration en taille d’épargne of frieze.
Cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine-cut), on the border, with a dragon head.
White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals; blued steel “Spade” hands.
20’’’, gilded brass, going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, compensated balance and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, index regulator; repeater work.
• Minute-repeater on two steel gongs by two hammers (activated by the rectangular push-piece located on the case-band at 12 o’clock)
• 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the single olive-shaped pushpiece located on the case-band at 2 o’clock)
Cover and case-back Royal blue flinqué enamelled (translucent enamel over guilloché engine-turning) with a scene showing on each side a young woman accompanied by a young girl, on the cover, with flowers, on the background, playing music; bezels set with half-pearls.
Case-band engraved and blue enamelled in champlevé with decoration en taille d’épargne of frieze.
Cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine-cut), on the border, with a dragon head.
White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals; blued steel “Spade” hands.
20’’’, gilded brass, going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, compensated balance and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, index regulator; repeater work.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3-8-87 |
Good Slightly scratched |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |
Brand Charles Barbezat-Baillot , Le Locle
Year circa 1900-1910
Movement No. 22 067
Case No. 83 676
Caliber 20’’’, lever escapement
Dimensions Ø 53 mm
Signature cuvette (dome)
Accessories copies of the invention patents
Notes
Movement based on the Swiss invention patent No. 334, delivered on January 8, 1889, to Charles Barbezat-Baillot, Le Locle, for a “Perfectionnements apportés à la construction des mécanismes de répétition pour montres de poche de toutes dimensions” (Improvements to the construction of the mechanisms of repetition for pocket watches of all sizes); this patent includes in particular the silent centrifugal force regulator to regulate the speed of the repetition mechanism.
Movement based on the Swiss invention patent No. 13 244, delivered on November 18, 1896, to Charles Barbezat-Baillot, Le Locle, for a “Poussette pour montres” (Push-piece for watches)
Charles Barbezat-Baillot, Le Locle
The company “C. Barbezat-Baillot” was founded by Charles Barbezat-Baillot (1847-1938). He was the elder brother of Henri Barbezat-Bôle (1851-1921), the founder of “H. Barbezat-Bôle S.A., Le Locle”.
Charles Barbezat-Baillot is the holder of many invention patents related to watchmaking and registers numerous Swiss trademarks: “Trusty”, “Le Phare”, “Dixi”, “Fix Watch Co.”, etc.
Levy Hermanos, Hong Kong The Philippines watchmaker company “Levy Hermanos” (Levy Brothers) was founded by Adolphe (or Adolf or Adolfo; 1849-1888), Charles (1854-1899) and Raphaël (or Rafael; 1858-1928). They are the sons of Nathan “Moïse” Lévy (1813-1892), merchant, and Louise Blum (1819-1895).
During the Franco-German War of 1870 the brothers fled from their native village of Marckolsheim in Alsace (Bas-Rhin) to Iloilo, Western Visayas, in the Philippines, via San Francisco in California. They were among the first Jewish families in the Philippines when they arrived in 1873.
Adolphe Lévy died in Manilla on June 13, 1888, of cholera
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the company was active in Manilla, Singapore, Paris, and have a Hong Kong branch at 10 Queen’s Road, Central. Over the years the company opened branches in Shanghai, Tientsin, Port Arthur, Kharbin and Bombay.
Armand Levy was the manager of the Hong Kong branch, and E. Levy, J. Weill and Albert Weill were watchmakers. Armand Levy resided at 61 Wyndham Street and Albert Weill at Stillingflete, 4 Peak Road.
They markets fine quality watches from various houses in the Neuchâtel mountains:
• Maurice Ditisheim, La Chaux-de-Fonds (serial numbers around 10 600), some with enamels attributable to Louis Rosselet (see: Chapuis, Alfred, La Montre Chinoise, 1919, p. 249).
• Charles Barbezat-Baillot, Le Locle (serial numbers around 83 600).
They are also the official sole agents for Patek, Philippe & Co., Geneva, the Roskopf watches, and later for Omega, Bienne / Biel. If they traded in watches and instruments (barometers, thermometers, etc.) they also sale bicycles and automobiles.
Movement based on the Swiss invention patent No. 13 244, delivered on November 18, 1896, to Charles Barbezat-Baillot, Le Locle, for a “Poussette pour montres” (Push-piece for watches)
Charles Barbezat-Baillot, Le Locle
The company “C. Barbezat-Baillot” was founded by Charles Barbezat-Baillot (1847-1938). He was the elder brother of Henri Barbezat-Bôle (1851-1921), the founder of “H. Barbezat-Bôle S.A., Le Locle”.
Charles Barbezat-Baillot is the holder of many invention patents related to watchmaking and registers numerous Swiss trademarks: “Trusty”, “Le Phare”, “Dixi”, “Fix Watch Co.”, etc.
Levy Hermanos, Hong Kong The Philippines watchmaker company “Levy Hermanos” (Levy Brothers) was founded by Adolphe (or Adolf or Adolfo; 1849-1888), Charles (1854-1899) and Raphaël (or Rafael; 1858-1928). They are the sons of Nathan “Moïse” Lévy (1813-1892), merchant, and Louise Blum (1819-1895).
During the Franco-German War of 1870 the brothers fled from their native village of Marckolsheim in Alsace (Bas-Rhin) to Iloilo, Western Visayas, in the Philippines, via San Francisco in California. They were among the first Jewish families in the Philippines when they arrived in 1873.
Adolphe Lévy died in Manilla on June 13, 1888, of cholera
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the company was active in Manilla, Singapore, Paris, and have a Hong Kong branch at 10 Queen’s Road, Central. Over the years the company opened branches in Shanghai, Tientsin, Port Arthur, Kharbin and Bombay.
Armand Levy was the manager of the Hong Kong branch, and E. Levy, J. Weill and Albert Weill were watchmakers. Armand Levy resided at 61 Wyndham Street and Albert Weill at Stillingflete, 4 Peak Road.
They markets fine quality watches from various houses in the Neuchâtel mountains:
• Maurice Ditisheim, La Chaux-de-Fonds (serial numbers around 10 600), some with enamels attributable to Louis Rosselet (see: Chapuis, Alfred, La Montre Chinoise, 1919, p. 249).
• Charles Barbezat-Baillot, Le Locle (serial numbers around 83 600).
They are also the official sole agents for Patek, Philippe & Co., Geneva, the Roskopf watches, and later for Omega, Bienne / Biel. If they traded in watches and instruments (barometers, thermometers, etc.) they also sale bicycles and automobiles.