Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 15, 2015

LOT 264

HAAS NEVEUX MINUTE-REPEATING PERPETUAL CALENDAR & CHRONOGRAPH Haas Neveux & Co., Genève-Paris, No. 18853. Made circa 1890. Extremely fine and equally rare, large and heavy, 18K yellow gold, minute-repeating, hunting-cased pocket watch with perpetual calendar, chronograph, instantaneous 30-minute register and moon phases.

CHF 12,000 - 18,000

HKD 100,000 - 150,000 / USD 13,000 - 19,500

Sold: CHF 17,500

Four-body, "bassine et filets", polished band, matted covers, the front cover with polished and black champlevé enamel monogram "AB", button at 12 for the start/ stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track concentric with fifths of a second divisions with Arabic numerals for the five-seconds, subsidiary dials for the seconds, days of the week, months of the four-year cycle combined with 30-minute register, date, aperture for the moon phases with lunar calendar on the edge combined with seconds. Yellow gold Louis XV hands. 19''', matte gilt three-quarter-plate, 23 jewels, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Case and cuvette signed, case numbered.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-70-01

Good

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Hairline

HANDS Original

Notes

DIAM. 57 mm. Haas Neveux Founded in 1848 by BENJAMIN HAAS, later becoming known as Haas Neveux & Cie, it is one of the oldest Swiss watch manufacturers. The Haas signature has always been one of the most sought after, thanks to the impeccable standards of the company. Among their most notable creations was the first ultra thin watch, launched at the end of the 19th century. Haas gained a reputation as a manufacturer of fine chronometers, chronographs, and highly complicated watches. This very fine watch has an extremely heavy gauge gold case and naturally of high quality as expected of HAAS NEVEUX. It is in very good crisp condition save for a small hairline just below the moon phase aperture.