Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Hotel Noga Hilton, Oct 16, 2005

LOT 233

B. Poitevin, Fabricant, 22 rue Vivienne, Paris, No. 48856. Made circa 1900. Very fine, Art Nouveau, keyless, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with perpetual calendar and moon phase.

C. Four-body, "bassine", solid, polished and chased with Art Nouveau initials enhanced with ivy decoration, bezel en suite with ivy garlands, gold hinged cuvette engraved with a dedication dated 1903. D. White enamel with radial Arabic numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary dials for the days of the week, the months of the leap-year cycle, the date and the seconds, aperture for the moon phase. Gold "spade" hands. M. Cal. 45.1 mm (20'''), nickel, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 31 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, "swan-neck" micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Cuvette signed. Diam. 55 mm.