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.


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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

Bibliography
• 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.