Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 15, 2015

LOT 18

GOLAY MINUTE REPEATER & CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD A.Golay-Leresche & Fils, Genève, 2 Rue de la Paix, Paris, No. 18885. Made circa 1890. Very fine and rare, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold pocket watch with chronograph.

Four-body, "bassine," solid, polished, co-axial button in the crown for the start/stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette, glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions with Arabic 5-minute/seconds numerals. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 18```, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 35 jewels, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.