Important Watches, Wristwatches and c...
Tokyo, Dec 15, 1989
LOT 339
Nicole Nielsen & Co , 14 Soho Square, London, No 10240, circa 1900. Very fine 18 ct. gold minute repeating keyless watch with a chronograph and a progressive 60 minute recorder.
JPY 1,100,000 - 1,300,000
USD 7,000 - 9,000
Three body massive "bassine et filets" polished case. Engineturned gold cuvette. White enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute and chronograph rings, subsidiary running seconds and a minute register (imperceptible hair crack). Blued steel "pear" hands. Fine glit brass 19"' three quarter plate movement, 25 jewels, English lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance with gold screwes, balance spring with a terminal curve. Repeating on gongs by means of a slide on the band. The chronograph with visible work set in motion and stoped by depressing the winding crown. Signed on the dial and the movement. In good condition. Diam.: 58 mm.
