Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 655

LE PHARE - MINUTE REPEATER & PERPETUAL CALENDAR YELLOW GOLD Le Phare, (C. Barbezat-Baillot), Le Locle, case No. 67013. Dated 1932. Very fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold hunting-cased pocket watch with perpetual calendar, phases of the moon and chronograph with instantaneous 30-minute register.

Four-body, "bassine", polished, button at 4 for the start/stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph. Hinged gold engraved with date and technical details. White enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months of the leap year cycle concentric with 30-minute register, and subsidiary seconds at 9 o'clock concentric with phases of the moon aperture. Blued steel spade hands. 47 mm. (21'''), matte gilt, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, silent "cross" centrifugal governor, index regulator, repeating on gongs by depressing a push-button in the band at 6 o'clock. Cuvette signed.