Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 23, 2012

LOT 85

DENT CHRONOGRAPH POCKET WATCH YELLOW GOLD Dent, Watchmaker to The King & Queen, 34, Cockspur Street, London, No. 33757. The case with London hallmarks for 1911. Very fine, half-hunting cased 18K gold keyless pocket watch with chronograph and register.

C. Four-body, ?bassine et fi lets?, master mark RN, polished, hinged and sprung front cover with blue enamel Roman chapter ring and inner minute track, thief-proof swivel bow. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and concentric fi fths of a second track, Arabic fi ve minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds at 9, 60-minute recording dial at 3. Blued steel double spade hands. M. 43 mm., 19???, frosted gilt half-plate, 15 jewels, going barrel, lateral English lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold timing and temperature adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, diamond endstone, index regulator, Nicole Nielsen chronograph work mounted on the backplate activated by a button in the band. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 54 mm.