Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Nov 25, 2006

LOT 90

?Minute Repeater Chronograph? Volta (Maurice Ditisheim, La Chaux-de-Fonds), No. 37182. Made circa 1910. Fine, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with chronograph.

C. Four body, "bassine", polished, the front cover with engraved monogram. Hinged gold cuvette, decorated with medals awarded in different exhibitions, glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions, Arabic minutes and seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold "spade" hands. M. 48 mm., 21''', frosted gilt brass, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a push piece in the band, centrifugal regulator, chronograph with visible work, push piece in the band at 2 o?clock. Cuvette and case signed. Diam. 57 mm.