Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 270

B. Poitevin Quarter Repeating & Chronograph B. Poitevin, No. 39662. Made circa 1890. Fine, 18K yellow gold, quarter-repeating, keyless pocket watch with chronograph.

C. Five-body, bassine, the back cover with engraved foliate monogram. Hinged gold cuvette, hinged glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five minute numerals, outermost fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. Gold spade hands. M. 19???, rhodium plated, 29 jewels, gold wheel train, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with peripheral temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed. Diam. 52 mm.C. Five-body, bassine, the back cover with engraved foliate monogram. Hinged gold cuvette, hinged glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five minute numerals, outermost fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. Gold spade hands. M. 19???, rhodium plated, 29 jewels, gold wheel train, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with peripheral temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed. Diam. 52 mm.