Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 135

Quarter-Repeater & Chronograph Swiss, No. 48621. Made circa 1900. Fine, quarter-repeating, 14K gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with chronograph.

C. Four-body, "bassine", solid, polished, front cover with monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with large painted Arabic numerals, outer minute track and outermost fifth of a second chronograph divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. Gilt Louis XVI hands. M. Cal. 19???, frosted gilt, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible chronograph work, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, adjustable centrifugal governor to regulate the speed of the repeating. Diam. 54 mm. Property of Various Owners