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Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 86

Watch with 7 Complications G. Legrand A Geneve, 30, Rue Montpensier, Paris. ?Quantieme Perpetuel?, No. 8618, the movement attributed to LeCoultre & Co. Made circa 1890. Very fine and rare, 18K pink gold, minute-repeating, keyless, huntingcased pocket watch with perpetual calendar, chronograph, moon phases and age.

C. Four-body, "bassine et filets", massive, engine-turned with polished borders, sprung front cover with a monogram highlighted with black champleve enamel. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and fifths of a second chronograph divisions, Arabic five second numerals, subsidiary dials for the date, days of the week, the months with leap-year cycle and seconds, moon phase aperture with moon's age on the border. Gold spade hands. M. 20"', rhodiumplated, fausses cotes decoration, 30 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible chronograph work, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed by the retailer. Diam. 52 mm.