Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 158

Borel Fils & Cie, Neuchatel, No. 105778. Made for the Russian market, circa 1900. Fine, 18K yellow gold, minute-repeating, hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with triple date, chronograph and moon phases.

C. Four-body, ?bassine et filets?, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute track and concentric outer seconds track divided into fifths and with Arabic five second numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the date, apertures for the days of the week and months (in Cyrillic) and moon phases. Gold ?Louis XV? hands. M. 46 mm., 21???, frosted gilt, jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, polished steel chronograph work mounted on the back plate and activated by a button in the band, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band, centrifugal governor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 57 mm.