Only Online Auction
Geneva, Jan 03, 2022
LOT 87
Doxa Watch Factory, Georges Ducommun
Oversize Art Deco pocket watch; silvered metal
CHF 300 - 600
EUR 300 - 600 / USD 350 - 650 / HKD 2,600 - 5,100
Silvered metal, open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, oversized Art Deco pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6.
Case-back stamped with an allegory of work, “Labor”, by Holy Frères, Saint-Imier (Bernese Jura), showing a blacksmith carrying a cogwheel near his furnace, in front of his anvil and hammer, compass and square, in an imaginary landscape showing a factory, an electric pole, a locomotive, a train, an automobile, an airship and a steamship, images of industrial and human progress, … if this idea was very beautiful before the butchery of the First World War, it is today a utopia in the age of global warming!
Silver stamped satiné dial with radial Roman numerals; the centre and the rim with varicoloured gold scrolled floral decoration and frieze; blued steel “Spade” hands.
Movement 23’’’, silver-plated, going barrel, straight-line equilibrated lever escapement, uncut bimetallic compensated balance with poising screws and blued steel flat hairspring, polished steel index-regulator.
Case-back stamped with an allegory of work, “Labor”, by Holy Frères, Saint-Imier (Bernese Jura), showing a blacksmith carrying a cogwheel near his furnace, in front of his anvil and hammer, compass and square, in an imaginary landscape showing a factory, an electric pole, a locomotive, a train, an automobile, an airship and a steamship, images of industrial and human progress, … if this idea was very beautiful before the butchery of the First World War, it is today a utopia in the age of global warming!
Silver stamped satiné dial with radial Roman numerals; the centre and the rim with varicoloured gold scrolled floral decoration and frieze; blued steel “Spade” hands.
Movement 23’’’, silver-plated, going barrel, straight-line equilibrated lever escapement, uncut bimetallic compensated balance with poising screws and blued steel flat hairspring, polished steel index-regulator.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Brand Doxa, Le Locle
Year circa 1910
Movement No. unnumbered
Case No. unnumbered (by Holy Frères, Saint-Imier (Bernese Jura)
Material silvered metal
Diameter 70.1 mm.
Caliber 23’’’, straight-line lever escapement
Weight 216.2 gr. (approx.)
Signature cuvette (dome)
CONDITIONS AND INFORMATION FOR BUYERS
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