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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Oct 13, 2001

LOT 771

Henry Capt, Genève, No. 34319, circa 1875.Very fine and important 18K pink gold, astronomical, moon phase, perpetual calendar keyless pocket chronometer with quarter-repeating.

C. Four-body, solid, "bassine et filets", polished, with the engraved initials "RH" under a seven-pronged coronet, gold hinged and glazed cuvette. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabic markers, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months concentric with four-year leap cycle and small seconds, aperture at 12 o'clock for enameled phases of the moon on a gold base with a scale for the moon age. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. 42,6 mm17```), nickel, "fausses côtes" decoration, 31 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance-spring, repeating on gongs through an activating slide in the band.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 52 mm.