Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 113

LeCoultre & Co - Five-Minute Repeating LeCoultre & Co., movement No. 42364. Made circa 1900. Very fine and rare, five-minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, hunting cased, keyless pocket watch.

HKD 40,000 - 60,000

USD 5,200 - 7,800 / EUR 4,000 - 6,000

Sold: HKD 50,000

C. Four-body, ?bassine et filets?, engine-turned with polished borders. Hinged gold cuvette over glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. D. White enamel with narrow radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outer red Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. M. 19???, rhodium-plated, 19 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Movement signed LeCoultre & Co. under the hour hammer. Diam. 52 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Five-Minute Repeating Is a rare variant of the repeating watch, instead of the more common quarter and minute repeating, a five-minute repeater strikes the hours followed by a single hammer blow for each elapsed five minutes after the hour up to a total of 11 strikes for fifty-five minutes past (five minutes to the next hour)