Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, May 12, 2019
LOT 297
EUGÈNE LECOULTRE WATCH WITH SIX COMPLICATIONS. VERY RARE HOROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS, 18K YELLOW GOLD
CHF 7,000 - 9,000
HKD 56,000 - 72,000 / USD 7,000 - 9,000
Sold: CHF 8,750
A very fine and rare,18K yellow gold, open face, keyless pocket watch with hinged case-back, subsidiary seconds at 6, and six horological complications: Quarter-repeater on two steel gongs (activated by the slide at 2 o’clock), Instantaneous perpetual calendar, Retrograde (fly-back) date of the month (half-circle graduation at 12 o’clock), Day of the week (aperture at 9 o’clock; indications given in French), Month of the year (subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock; indications given in French), Phases of the moon (aperture at 12 o’clock)
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-71-01 |
Good ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Hairlines HANDS Original |
Brand Eugene Lecoultre
Year Circa 1860
Calibre 19’’’ gilded brass, with going barrel, straight-line equilibrated lever escapement, compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve
Case No. 1464
Dimensions 52.5 mm
Signature on the Case, hallmark MF inside case back, Case-back engraved in taille-douce with the cypher “J C H L”; chiselled case band.