Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 573

Minute Repeating LeCoultre & Co., No. 12827. Made circa 1910. Fine, minute-repeating, 14K rose gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, ?bassine? polished, the front cover with engraved monogram. Hinged gold cuvette, glazed gold-rimmed cover over the movement. D. White enamel with painted Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals. Gilt Louis XV hands.M. 19???, frosted gilt, 29 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Movement signed under the hour hammer, case stamped with Maurice Ditisheim?s trademark of a cherub holding a bell. Diam. 56 mm.