Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 541

GOLAY LERESCHE - VERY RARE FIVE-MINUTE REPEATING WITH QUARTER-REPEATING WATCH - BREGUET DIAL Golay Leresche & Fils, Golay Fils & Stahl, Srs, Genève, 2 Rue de la Paix, Paris, No. 14116. Made circa 1910. Extremely fine and equally rare, five-minute and quarter repeating, 18K yellow gold keyless pocket watch.

CHF 6,000 - 8,000

HKD 50,000 - 66,000 / USD 6,400 - 8,500

Sold: CHF 8,750

Four-body, bassine, polished, semi-concealed hinge. Hinged cuvette. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. 20''', rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on two gongs with two hammers activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

DIAM. 53 mm. This watch has a very rare and unusual form of repeating mechanism of which only a very few examples are known. In effect it is a quarter repeater with the addition of five-minute-repeating so that after the hours are struck the watch then repeats the quarters as usual but after that a further single blow is struck for each five-minutes after and between the quarters.