Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 129

Minute Repeating & Chronograph Chronometer Quality Swiss. No. 1906. Made circa 1910. Very fine, 18K pink gold, minute-repeating, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with chronograph, the movement with the poinçon de Geneve for chronometer quality.

HKD 23,000 - 35,000

USD 3,000 - 4,500 / EUR 2,500 - 3,700

Sold: HKD 76,800

C. Four-body, bassine, polished, button at 12 for the start/ stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph. Hinged goldrimmed glazed cuvette. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five minute/second numerals, outermost fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. Black steel spade hands. M. 19???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 35 jewels, stamped twice with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, 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, visible chronograph work. Case numbered. Diam. 52 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 2-01

Very good

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Notes

This watch is of extremely high quality and in very good condition. It is very unusual to find a watch with minute-repeating and chronograph that bears the poinçon de Geneve mark on the movement, signifying that this watch has been awarded chronometer standard rating. Any added complications in a watch mechanism can adversely affect the timekeeping, thus the present watch is highly unusual in achieving chronometer standard timekeeping.