Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 178

?Minute repeating? Swiss, No. 63023. Made circa 1910. Fine, large, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 14K pink gold pocket watch with chronograph and register. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, "bassine", solid, engine-turned covers, front cover with a blank shield, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute track and 1/5th chronograph divisions, sunk subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials. Blued steel " Breguet " hands. M. Cal. 21???, maillechort, "fausses côtes" decoration, 29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, visible chronograph works, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Case numbered, movement engraved: ?Pat. 27833?. Diam. 57 mm.