Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Hotel Du Rhone, Apr 02, 2006

LOT 507

?Triple Complication? B. Haas Jeune, Haas Neveux & Cie, Sucrs., Genève - Paris, No. 18752. Made circa 1905. Very fine and rare, keyless, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and splitseconds chronograph with 30-minute register.

CHF 45,000 - 55,000

108 30,000 - 35,000

Sold: CHF 82,600

C. Four-body, ?demi-bassine?, polished, the case back engraved with a foliate monogram, the inner edge of the band with engraved dedication, gold hinged cuvette engrave with the maker?s details and prize medals for Paris 1900, gold bolt at 2 o?clock to lock the chronograph, chronograph buttons in the band and winding crown. D. White enamel with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute track with gold painted Arabic five-minute/seconds numerals, outermost 1/5th seconds track calibrated from 0-300, four subsidiary dials for the days of the week, date, months of the leap year cycle concentric with 30-minute register, and subsidiary seconds, moon phase aperture. Gold ?Louis XV? hands. M. Cal. 42 mm. (18???), stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, rhodium plated, ?wavy line? decoration, 40 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band. Dial and case signed, case numbered. Diam. 52 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

Haas - B. Jeune & Cie. (1870-circa 1885). Paris, Genève, Besançon. One of the oldest manufactures of Switzerland, known for high quality watchmaking. Haas Neveux & Cie. succeeded to the firm B. Haas Jne, which was created in 1848. Haas Neveux & Cie. created the revolutionary extra-flat watch with winding mechanism. The firm sought to make their watches more elegant by making them flatter. At the 1896 Geneva Exhibition they showed the first extra-flat watch with a movement only two millimeters thick. While they devoted a great deal of attention to the decoration of their watches, in the form of pendants, bracelets, rings, etc., Haas Neveux & Cie. remained at the forefront of the making of high-precision chronometers, obtaining prizes at the Geneva Observatory competitions. Since its foundation, Haas Neveux & Cie. has won the highest prizes at international exhibitions.