Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 17, 2009

LOT 6

Yellow Gold ?Quarter Repeater? Swiss, Genève, case No. 49390. Made circa 1890. Fine, quarter-repeating, yellow gold pocket watch. Accompanied by a 42 cm yellow and white gold chain and a key. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, ?bassine,? bezel and back rim engraved in floral and leaf decoration, engine-turned case back engraved with a crest surrounded by floral and leaf decoration, hinged cuvette engraved with movement details. D. White enamel with printed black radial Roman numerals, outer minute track. Gold Breguet hands. M. Cal. 18???, 13 jewels, lateral lever escapement a moustage, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel flat balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating the pusher at the bow. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 12 mm.