Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Mar 27, 2011
LOT 331
Lephare ? Minute-Repeating & Chronograph Le Phare (C. Barbezat-Baillot, Locle), Répétition à Minutes Chronographe, No. 497. Made circa 1910. Fine, large, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K gold pocket watch with chronograph.
CHF 3,500 - 5,000
USD 3,500 - 5,000 / EUR 2,700 - 4,000
C. Four-body, ?bassine?, polished. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with prize medals over a glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track and outermost fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. Gilt Louis XV hands. M. Cal. 21???, frosted gilt, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, centrifugal governor, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a push-button on the band. Case numbered, cuvette signed "Le Phare". Diam. 59 mm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: A |
Good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3** |
Good Repair required, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |