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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2008
LOT 33
Thin Minute-Repeater Touchon & Co., Genève, in partnership with Wittnauer & Co., Switzerland, No. 134767. Made in the 1920s. Fine and rare, thin, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold dress watch.
HKD 18,000 - 25,000
USD 2,300 - 3,300 / EUR 1,500 - 2,000
Sold: HKD 24,000
C. Four-body, ?demi-bassine?, polished, semi-concealed hinge. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Matte champagne with black champleve dauphine numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Black Breguet hands. M. Cal. 17???, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 5 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and movement signed Touchon & Co., movement and case also signed Wittnauer & Co., Switzerland. Diam. 46 mm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3-12 |
Good Worn |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-6-01 |
Good Slightly oxidized HANDS Original |
Notes
Watch manufacture which was first established in Sécheron and later in Petit-Saconnex (districts of Geneva), and subsequently at 1, place de la Fusterie. The trademark was registered on February 2, 1907, under No. 21652. The manufacture, which produced high quality watches, merged with Agassiz Watch Co. S.A., in order to launch on the market extra slim watches of 16 1/2???- 17/12th, 15/12th, 10/12th, and even of 10???- 10/12. This latter movement, fitted in its case, could be concealed into a 20 dollars coin and was awarded the Gold Medal at the Paris Exhibition in 1889 and, in 1910, received the highest distinction in Brussels. The company produced these watches for Tiffany.
In 1921, Touchon entered into partnership with Wittnauer, under the new company name of Wittnauer & Cie., for the production of watches and spare parts, and moved premises to 4, rue du Mont-Blanc until 1924.