Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 422

International Watch Co. Minute Repeater International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, No. 39869. Made circa 1910. Fine, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch.

C. Four body, "bassine", the front cover with engraved monogram. Hinged gold cuvette engraved « A. Waldin, Stockholm, 1917. D. White enamel with dauphine numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Black Breguet hands. M. 20''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, silent governor. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 53 mm.