Important Collectors Watches, Pocket...
Geneva, Oct 14, 2007
LOT 135
?Minute Repeater, Chronograph? Swiss, No. 27313. Made circa 1910. Fine and rare, large, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K rose gold pocket watch with chronograph, 30-minute register, tachometer and telemeter.
CHF 5,000 - 7,000
EUR 3,000 - 4,300 / USD 4,200 - 5,800
Sold: CHF 5,900
C. Four-body, "pomme et filet", solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette, glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and fifths of a second chronograph divisions, Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, outermost red tachometer and blue telemeter graduations, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register. Gold "Louis XV" hands. M. Cal. 20???, rhodium-plated, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible chronograph mechanism operated by a co-axial button ib the crown, repeating on two hammers on two gongs activated by a push-button in the band, centrifugal governor to regulate the speed of repeating. Diam. 58 mm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: A |
Good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 4-9-16* |
Fair Scratched Rusted Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |