Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 12, 2013

LOT 350

PINK GOLD MINUTE REPEATER Attributed to Ed. Koehn, Genève, No. 3020, retailed by A. Maurer. Made circa 1910. Very fine, large and heavy, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold pocket watch

CHF 3,500 - 4,500

HKD 29,000 - 37,000 / USD 3,700 - 4,800

Sold: CHF 6,875

C. Four-body, ?demi-bassine?, solid, polished, the front cover with engraved monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute track, large sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel spade hands. M. Cal. 19???, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, cuvette and movement signed: ?A. Maurer?. DIAM. 54 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3-8

Good

Slightly scratched

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

The majority of minute-repeating watches signed A. Maurer were made by Ed. Koehn of Geneva. He present watch can be attributed to Koehn on that basis