Hong Kong, May 29, 2022
LOT 382
Henry Capt
Pocket watch, minute-repeater, chronograph, minute counter; 18K yellow gold
HKD 47,500 - 72,000
EUR 5,800 - 8,600 / CHF 6,000 - 9,000 / USD 6,100 - 9,100
18K yellow gold, open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 and three horological complications:
· Minute-repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs (activated by the slide located on the case-band at 9 o’clock)
· 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the single round push-piece located on the winding-crown) with telemetric scale graduated for 12 kilometres
· Half-instantaneous 30-minute counter (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock)
Case-back polished.
White enamel dial with suspended “Breguet” numerals; blued steel “Spade” hands.
Movement 19’’’, gilded brass, going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index-regulator; repeater work on the main plate, under the dial, with silent centrifugal force governor to regulate the speed of the repetition mechanism; chronograph work on the top plate.