Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 136

MINUTE REPEATING, MOON PHASE, CALENDAR & CHRONOGRAPH Swiss, retailed by Escasany Hnos. Buenos-Aries, ?Répétition à Minutes Quantièmes Chronographe?, No. 201705. Made circa 1910. Fine, large, minute-repeating, hunting-cased, keyless 18K pink gold pocket watch with triple date calendar, chronograph and moon phases.

C. Four-body, "bassine", engine-turned, button at 12 for the start/stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with prize medals and technical details, glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track and 1/5th of a second chronograph divisions calibrated to 300, subsidiary seconds, date, days of the week and months dials. Gilt Louis XVI hands. M. Cal. 20???, frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible chronograph work, repeating on gongs activated by a push-button in the band, centrifugal governor. Cuvette signed by the retailer. Diam. 58 mm.