Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hog Kong, Feb 26, 2011

LOT 445

Henri Capt, Genève, No. 36428. Made circa 1890. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold pendant watch with blue enamel and diamonds.

C. Four-body, solid, hinged bezel, back and cuvette, bezel decorated with engraved floral pattern on an enamel blue background with applied diamonds, back decorated with blue enamel and floral pattern centered by a diamond-set floral motif. D. White enamel with blue Arabic numerals, outer minute track with blue Arabic 5-minute markers. Gold Louis XV hands (minute hand missing). M. Cal. 8???, maillechort, 18 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, straight-line moustache lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 29 mm.