Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 331

RÉPÉTITION À QUARTS CHRONOGRAPH & TRIPLE DATE CALENDAR Invicta ? Les Fils de R. Picard, Chaux-de-Fonds, No. 402778. Made circa 1900. Fine, large, hunting-cased, keyless, quarter-repeating, 18K rose gold pocket watch with chronograph, triple date calendar and moon phases.

C. Four-body, bassine, solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the prize medals and technical details over a glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and outermost fi fths of a second chronograph divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, date, days of the week, months and aperture for the moon phases. Gilt Louis XV hands. M. Cal. 21''', frosted gilt, 21 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by push button on the band, centrifugal governor. Diam. 58 mm.