Thematic Auction in Geneva:The Evolut...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Nov 16, 2002

LOT 325

Eugène LeCoultre, a Genève, No. 2274, circa 1875.Fine and unusual 18K gold keyless minute-repea-ting watch with unusually constructed chronograph.

CHF 7,000 - 9,000

EUR 4,500 - 6,000

Sold: CHF 11,500

C. Four-body, "bassine et filets", back decorated with applied silver figures, sea monsters, flower vase on matted gold background, reeded bezels and band, gold hinged cuvette.D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost seconds track, five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel "Louis XV" hands. M. 42 mm. (18 1/2'''), frosted gilt, 34 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, cam-type micrometric regulator, Eugène LeCoultre's chronograph system, repeating on gongs through a slide in the band.Signed on the cuvette and punched with the maker's mark on the movement under the dial.Diam. 51 mm.


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Grading System
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 12 - 01

Notes

Eugène LeCoultrewas a very skilled maker who invented a special chronograph system with a clutch wheel. In 1980 he won the Geneva Observatory Timing Contest (with watch No. 2370), in 1881 he won a bronze medal at the Concours de Chronomètres.He was most likely the father of Marius, who invented, among other things, the well-known "boules de Geneve".