The Longitude at the Eve of the Third...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 23, 1999

LOT 291

Eugène Lecoultre, Swiss, No. 15833, circa 1920.Very fine 18K pink gold hunting cased, keyless minute repeating automaton watch.

C. Four body, massive "demi-bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Small red flinqué enamel with gilt Arabic numerals and subsidiary seconds, flanked by a gold Father of Time Jack on the left, two cherubs on the right, applied over the blued steel dial plate and striking hours, quarters and minutes on two bells. Gold "Louis XV" hands. M. 20''' gilt brass,29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring with swan neck micrometric index. Repeating on gongs with slide in the band and fly regulator.`Signed on the cuvette.Diam. 56 mm.