Important collector's watches, wristw...

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Apr 13, 2002

LOT 411

Imperial Presentation Watch Paul Buhre, Horloger de la Cour Impériale, Moscow and St. Petersburg, No. 2440, circa 1870. Very fine 18K gold diamond- and ruby-set, hunting-cased, keyless, astronomical, minute-repeating watch with chronograph, perpetual calendar with phases of the moon and its age. Accompanied by original wooden fitted box.

C. Four-body, ?deux filets?, polished with applied silver set with diamonds and rubies monogram of the Czar Nicolas II, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel, radial Roman 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 four year leap cycle and subsidiary seconds concentric with phases of the moon aperture and a sector with its age. Gold ?Louis XV? hands. M. 42 mm. (18 1/2???), nickel, 34 jewels, gold chaton, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs, slide on the band. Signed on the cuvette and the box in Cyrillic, the movement and the cuvette also signed (later) L. Audemars. Diam. 55 mm.