Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 340

?Extra Flat Minute Repeater? Haas Neveux & Co., Genève, No. 20132. Made circa 1930. Fine and elegant, 18K gold, extra flat, keyless minute repeating dress watch. To be sold without reserve

USD 2,000 - 3,000

EUR 1,600 - 2,300

Sold: USD 3,068

C. Three-body, solid, "bassine pincée", polished, concealed hinge, the back engraved with a small monogram and motto, a dedication dated April 21, 1933, engraved inside. D. Two-tone silver with Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Spade" hands. M. 38 mm (17'''), rhodium-plated "fausses côtes" decoration, stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, 29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Case signed. Diam. 46 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-6-01

Good

Slightly oxidized

HANDS Original

Notes

The Seal of the Geneva Quality Mark is a trademark of the Office of Geneva Control of Watches. It was established on November 6, 1886, amended several times with the largest change incorporated on December 10, 1955. Its function was to control voluntarily watches made in the Canton of Geneva. Paragraph 3 of the statue states that the watches awarded the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark must "after examination prove to have a perfect mechanism to ensure regular and durable functioning".