Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 19

?Minute Repeater & Perpetual Calendar? Swiss, probably LeCoultre, No. 15004. Made for the Russian market circa 1890. Extremely fine and rare, large, minute repeating, astronomic, 14K pink gold, hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar and moon phases.

C. Four-body, ?bassine et filet?, heavy, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the months and four-year cycle, date, days of the week and seconds, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel ?spade? hands. M. 43 mm., 19???, rhodium plated, ?fausses-cotes? decoration, 31 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Diam. 55 mm.