Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 120

MINUTE REPEATING & CHRONOGRAPH CENTRAL MINUTE RECORDER Le Roy & Fils, H.gers de la Marine, Palais-Royal, 13&15 Gal.ie Montpensier, Paris, 57 New Bond Street, London, Swiss, No. 56068. Made circa 1890. Fine and rare, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch with chronograph and progressive central minute register.

Four-body, "bassine", polished, co-axial button in the crown for start/stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph and register, the back cover with an engraved monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands, blued steel chronograph hands. Cal. 19''', matte gilt, 31 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.