Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 345

Victorin Piguet & Cie, Minute-Repeater & Chronograph V(ictorin) Piguet & Cie, Sentier, case No. 12585. Made circa in 1920. Very fine and rare, keyless, 18K yellow gold and painted on enamel, minute-repeating dress watch with chronograph and 30-minute register.

CHF 4,000 - 6,000

USD 3,800 - 5,700 / EUR 2,800 - 4,200

Sold: CHF 9,600

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, polished, the back cover decorated with a fine blue and yellow translucent enamel coat of arms with a painted on enamel trout on a foliate engraved ground, enamel monogram "AM" above featuring two further trouts, chronograph activated by co-axial push-button in the crown. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute track and concentric fifths of a second divisions, red Arabic five minute/ seconds numerals, red subsidiary seconds, 30-minute register. Blued steel spade hands. M. 19???, frosted gilt, 35 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating with two polished steel hammers on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed. Diam. 53 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-70-01

Good

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Hairline

HANDS Original

Notes

Victorin Piguet (1850-1937) A legendary maker of complicated ebauches, his ebauches were used by Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, and Breguet, for their special projects. Piguet started in Geneva in 1880, under the name "V. Piguet et Frères". Three years later, he returned to his native Vallée de Joux.