Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 377

?Split-Seconds - Minute Repeating? A. Nicolet, Swiss, No.13168. Made circa 1900. Fine and rare, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and 30-minute register.

C. Four-body, "demi-bassine", polished, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute and 1/5th seconds track, red painted Arabic 5 minute/seconds markers, subsidiary seconds dial, 30-minute register at 12. Black steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. 17???, maillechort, 30 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, wolf?s tooth winding wheels, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 47 mm.