Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 15, 2015

LOT 245

GIRARD-PERREGAUX MINUTE-REPEATER YELLOW GOLD Girard Perregaux. Case No. 315648. Made circa 1900. Very fine, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless hunting-cased pocket watch.

CHF 5,000 - 7,000

HKD 42,000 - 59,000 / USD 5,400 - 7,600

Sold: CHF 5,750

Three-body, bassine, matte, the front cover cast and chased with two horses within a horseshoe amongst foliage. Cuvette missing. Three-piece white enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Gold Louis XV hands. Cal. 43 mm. matte gilt, 25 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs with two polished steel hammers activated by a slide in the band, centrifugal governor.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3-29

Good

Lacking elements

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 54 mm.