Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, May 10, 2020

LOT 228

Charles Barbezat-Baillot – Fix Watch Co. - Pocket watch, minute-repeater, chronograph, minute recorder, perpetual calendar, moon phases, made for the Spanish market; 18K yellow gold

18K yellow gold, hunting-case, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, made for the Spanish market, with subsidiary seconds at 9 and nine horological complications: • Minute-repeater on two steel gongs (activated by the rectangular push-piece located on the case-band at 6 o’clock) • 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the rectangular push-piece located on the case-band at 4 o’clock) • Instantaneous 30-minute recorder (subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock) • Half-instantaneous perpetual calendar • Date of the month (subsidiary dial at 6 o’clock) • Day of the week (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock; indications given in Spanish) • Month of the year (subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock; indications given in Spanish) • Four-year cycle of leap-years (subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock) • Age and phases of the moon (subsidiary dial, graduated from 0 to 29 ½, and aperture at 9 o’clock). Case-back and cover polished; cover engraved in taille-douce (fine-cut) with a garland, and, applied, in gold, the cypher “A G”. Movement 21’’’, gilded brass, going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve.