Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 177

?Astronomic? L. Lob & Cie., Genève, No. 17896. Made circa 1890. Fine, hunting-cased, keyless, astronomic, 18K pink gold pocket watch day, date and moon phases.

C. Four-body, "bassine et filet", solid, polished, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with 5 minute/seconds markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the days of the week and date, aperture for the moon phases. Pink gold "Louis XI" hands. M. Cal. 19''', maillechort, "fausses côtes" decoration, 16 jewels, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Case numbered. Diam. 53 mm.