Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 293

JULES MONARD GRANDE & PETITE SONNERIE MINUTE REPEATER YELLOW GOLD Jules Monard, Geneva, No. 24964. Made circa 1900. Very fine and very rare open-face, keyless, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with grande and petite sonnerie and minute repeater.

CHF 10,000 - 15,000

HKD 80,000 - 120,000 / USD 10,400 - 16,000

Sold: CHF 56,250

Four-body, bassine, polished. Hinged gold cuvette, levers in the band for silence/sonnerie and grande/petite sonnerie White enamel with radial arabic numerals, outer minute track with red 5 minute arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blue steel pear hands. 43 mm. rhodium-plated, double train with differential winding, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, striking the hours and quarters two hammers, repeating activated by a slide in the band.


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Grade:
Case: 2-8

Very good

Slightly scratched
Movement: 2*

Very good

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

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial and case signed, case numbered. DIAM. 53 mm. THICKNESS 15 mm. This watch was part of the collection of the Swiss comedian MICHEL SIMON who inherited his father's beautiful collection of pocket watches. ANTIQUORUM sold part of his collection back in 1977. This watch is also illustrated in La Montre Suisse on plate 124.