Important Watches and Wristwatches
Hong Kong, Hotel Furama Kempinski, May 27, 1990
LOT 176
Girard Perregeaux et Cie, circa 1900.
HKD 330,000 - 440,000
CHF 60,000 - 80,000
Sold: HKD 402,500
Rare and very fine 18 ct gold hunting cased pocket chronometer with three gold parallel bridges, patented on March 25, 1884, with a special escapement. White enamel dial with Breguet numerals + auxiliary second dial. Gold "Spade" hands. Fine 19' damascened nickel movement with three 18 ct pink gold parallel bridges. 19 jewels, screwed gold setting, gold train, reversed barrel, equilibrated straight line lever escapement in inverted position. 18' 000 beating, cut bimetallic balance. Flat balancespring with double Phillips terminal curves, free sprung regulation.
