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Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 343

?Extra Minute-Repeater? Touchon & Co., Genève, No. 137930. Made circa 1910. Fine, minute-repeating, hunting-cased, keyless, 18K yellow pocket watch with ?Extra? adjustment.

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Black steel ?spade? hands. M. Cal. 17???, ?Extra? quality, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, adjusted, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 48 mm.