Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 345

HENRY CAPT MINUTE REPEATING POCKET WATCH GOLD Ls. Gallopin & Cie, Successors de Henri Capt, Genève, 'Répétition à Minutes', No. 46501. Made circa 1890. Very fine and very rare, small minute-repeating, keyless 18K gold pocket watch.

CHF 5,000 - 7,000

HKD 40,000 - 56,000 / USD 5,200 - 7,300

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

Sold: CHF 10,000

Four-body, bassine, polished, semi-concealed hinges. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary sunk seconds dial. Gold spade hands. 27mm. rhodium plated, 31 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, straight line calibrated 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: 2-8

Very good

Slightly scratched

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 34 mm. THICKNESS 9 mm. To be sold without reserve