Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 251

Minute Repeating LeCoultre & Co., No. 237364. Made for the Hispanic market, circa 1910. Fine, large, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch.

C. Four-body, ?bassine et filets? engine-turned with polished borders, the back cover with an applied gold foliate monogram. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the technical details, glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. D. Silver and gold, foliate engraved, painted radial Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds, outer dot minute divisions, applied yellow gold flowers in the center and on the outer border. Gold Louis XVI hands. M. 20???, rhodium-plated, 30 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. Movement signed under the hour hammer. Diam. 59 mm.