Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Nov 10, 2013
LOT 558
GONTARD - RARE & UNUSUAL 15-DAY GOING GOLD POCKET WATCH Gontard et Cie à Paris, Swiss, No. 1038. Made circa 1860. Fine, rare and unusual, 15-day going, 18K gold pocket watch with power-reserve indication.
CHF 2,000 - 4,000
HKD 16,000 - 33,000 / USD 2,100 - 4,300
Sold: CHF 2,750
Three-body, 'forme quatre baguettes', polished bezel, engine-turned back 'grains d'orge', coin-edge band. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued-steel Breguet hands. 19''', gilded brass, 8 jewels, special calibre with large mainspring barrel covering the entire back of the watch, winding indication sector calibrated for 15 days on the barrel cover driven directly from the pinion mounted on the winding arbor, cylinder escapement, monometallic three-arm balance, flat balance spring, index regulator protruding from the dial plate.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3-19 |
Good Dent(s) |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 4-24-74-01 |
Fair Slightly chipped ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Slightly restored hard enamel HANDS Original |