Important collector's watches, wristw...

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Apr 13, 2002

LOT 410

Paul Buhre, Horloger de la Cour Impériale, Moscow and St. Petersburg, No. 143292, circa 1900. Very fine and important solid 18K gold, diamond- and ruby-set, hunting-cased, keyless, astronomical watch with minute-repeating, chronograph and perpetual calendar with phases of the moon and its age. Accompanied by original fitted box.

C. Four-body, ?deux filets?, polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute ring, outermost chronograph ring with five-minute Arabic figures, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months of the leap year cycle and subsidiary seconds concentric with phases of the moon aperture and a sector with its age. Gold ?spade? hands. M. 45 mm. (20???), nickel, 35 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs, slide on the band. Signed on the dial and cuvette. Diam. 60 mm.