Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 520

Chronosport Lepine Lepine, ?Chronosport Lepine?, No. 27837, case No. 71763. Made circa 1900. Fine and very rare, gun metal and yellow gold, keyless pocket watch with chronograph, inner red concentric scales for calculating timings of up to 1/10th second, outer blue scale to 200 units, and central instantaneous 30-minute register. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, "demi-bassine" polished, gold-rimmed bezel, gold thumb piece, hinge and bow. Hinged gun metal cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions with Arabic five minutes/ seconds numerals, outermost blue scale for "Calcule pour l'unite", inner red scale for "Calcule pour le 1/10e", innermost instantaneous 30-minute register. Blued steel Breguet hands.M. 42 mm., 19''', frosted gilt, 23 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible chronograph work. Dial signed. Diam. 55 mm.