Important Watches

Geneva, Mar 20, 2010

LOT 186

A. H. Rodanet Watch with 8 Complications A. H. Rodanet, Constructeur de Chronometres, 36 Rue Vivienne, Paris, No. 9519, case No. 11712. Made circa 1895. Very fine and rare, 18K rose gold, minute-repeating, hunting-cased, keyless, pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph, perpetual calendar, phases of the moon and lunar calendar.

C. Four-body, "bassine", engine-turned with polished borders, push button for the chronograph at 1, the split-seconds at 11. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost chronograph divisions with fifths of a second divisions and Arabic five second/minute numerals, four subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months concentric with leap year indication, seconds and aperture for the phases of the moon, lunar calendar on the edge. Gold pear hands. M. 43 mm, 19''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, calibrated straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs with two polished steel hammers activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed. Diam. 55 mm.