Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, Oct 27, 2019
LOT 6
TECHNICUM, ECOLE D’HORLOGERIE, LE LOCLE HOROLOGICAL SCHOOL POCKET WATCH; SILVER
HKD 12,000 - 15,000
CHF 1,500 - 1,800 / USD 1,550 - 1,850
Sold: HKD 15,000
Silver (0.900), keyless-winding, round-shaped, horological school pocket watch, with snap-on case-back and subsidiary seconds at 6. Cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with the mention “Souvenir / du / Technicum / A. Jeanneret / Le Locle / 1933”. Case-back engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with a parrot.
| 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 Ecole d'Horlogerie
Year Circa 1933
Movement No. 1 966
Calibre 18’’’, lever escapement
Case No. 2
Diameter 51.5 mm
Accessories Bulletin de marche de 1re Classe from the Bureau official de contrôle de la marche des montres from Le Locle (dated March 23, 1933)
Notes
• Fallet, Estelle, & Simonin, Antoine, Dix écoles d’horlogerie suisses, chefs-d’oeuvre de savoir-faire, Neuchâtel, Editions Antoine Simonin, 2010 (568 pp.), pp. 225, 537.