Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 97

?Triple Complication? Haas Neveux & Co, Genève, No. 19287. Made circa 1890. Very fine and rare, small, keyless, triple-complicated, astronomic, minute- repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and split-seconds chronograph with 30- minute register.

C. Four-body, ?demi-bassine?, solid, polished, the case back with a royal crown and the initials M.B.T. in white champlevé enamel, gold hinged cuvette, gold bolt at 2 o?clock to block the chronograph. D. White enamel with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute track with gold 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, outermost 1/5th seconds track, four subsidiary sunk dials for the days of the week, date, months of the leap year cycle concentric with minute register, and subsidiary seconds concentric with the moon phase aperture. Gold ?Louis XV? hands. M. Cal. 36 mm. (16???), stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, nickel, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 40 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide in the band. Dial and case signed, movement and case numbered. Diam. 45 mm.