Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Mar 15, 2015
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.
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.
Grading System | |
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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 |