Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010
Gustave Sandoz ? Five-Minute Repeating Watch Gustave Sandoz, Horloger de la Marine, Palais Royal, 147-148, Paris, No. 6523, the movement supplied by LeCoultre & Cie. Made circa 1880. Fine and rare, five-minute repeating, 18K rose gold, keyless pocket watch.
C. Four-body, bassine, polished, the back cover engine-turned with engraved foliate monogram ?JFS?. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and red Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds with red numerals. Blued steel spade hands. M. 19???, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, counterpoised and calibrated straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold meantime and temperature compensation screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, the terminal secured by a stud with two screws, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and cuvette signed, dial plate punched LB & Co., for LeCoultre & Cie, Borgeaud & Co.Diam. 49 mm.
Grading System | |
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Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3** |
Good Repair required, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |