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.

CHF 3,000 - 5,000

HKD 25,000 - 42,000 / USD 3,200 - 5,400

Sold: CHF 3,750

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.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-71-01

Good

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Hairlines

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 49 mm.