Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 756

INVICTA MINUTE-REPEATING TRIPLE CALENDAR MOON PHASE & CHRONOGRAPH PADOVA AUTOMOBILISTICA INSCRIPTION Invicta (Les Fils de R. Picard, Chaux-de-Fonds), "Répétition à Minutes Chronographe 3 Quantiemes, No. 312687. Made circa 1900. Fine, large, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K gold pocket watch with triple-date calendar, chronograph and moon phases. Accompanied by a retailer's period fitted box.

Four-body, bassine et filets, polished, olive-shaped button for the start/stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph, the interior of the front cover engraved "Rivnione Automobilistica Padova, 16 Ottobre 1904". Hinged gold cuvette engraved with prize medals and technical details, glazed gold- rimmed cover to view the movement. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and outermost fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, date, days of the week and months, aperture for the moon phases. Gilt Louis XV hands. Cal. 20''', frosted gilt, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, centrifugal governor, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a push-button on the band. Case numbered, cuvette signed and numbered.