Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 368

?Perpetual Calendar? B. Poitevin, Genève, No. 2268. Made for Rizzoli, 19 Rue Vivienne, Paris, circa 1900. Very fine and rare, keyless, astronomic, quarter-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and lunar calendar.

C. Four-body, "bassine et filets", solid, polished. Gold hinged cuvette engraved with the retailer?s details. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and red painted five-minute numerals, subsidiary dials for the days of the week, the months, the date and the seconds, aperture for the moon phase with lunar calendar. Gold "spade" hands. M. 20''', frosted gilt, 23 jewels, straight line calibrated and counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Cuvette signed for the retailer, pillar plate with Poitevin?s mark. Diam. 53 mm.