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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2008

LOT 109

Attributed to Le Phare, Swiss, No. 73215. Made circa 1910. Fine, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K gold pocket watch with triple date, chronograph and moon phases.

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, polished, chronograph button at 2. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the technical details, glazed gold-rimmed cover over the movement. D. White enamel with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost 1/5th seconds chronograph track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the date, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Gilt Louis XV hands. M. Cal. 21???, frosted gilt, 32 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, steel chronograph work mounted on the back plate, repeating on gongs activated by depressing a button on the band. Diam. 58 mm.