Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 113

UNIC MINUTE REPEATER TRIPLE DATE CHRONOGRAPH Unic, Swiss, case No. 47514. Made circa 1905. Very fine, 18K yellow gold, hunting cased, keyless, minute-repeating pocket watch with triple date calendar, chronograph and moon phases.

C. Four body, massive, bassine, polished, hinged gold cuvette engraved with dedication details from the 1905 Word?s Fair in Liege and 1906 in Milan. D. White enamel with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute and 1/5th second track with 5-second Arabic markers, concentric red Arabic 24-hour division, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the date, apertures for days of the week, the months and the phases of the moon. Gold spade hands. M. 21''', frosted gilt, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a push-button in the band, chronograph activated by a push-button at 2. Signed UNIC on the dial, case numbered. Diam. 57 mm.