Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 13, 2012

LOT 39

INVICTA MINUTE REPEATER & CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD Invicta, Swiss, Minute repeater, No. 91455. Made circa 1900. Fine, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased, keyless, minuterepeating pocket watch with chronograph.

C. Five-body, bassine, polished, engine-turned front cover with a central shield surrounded by a fl oral and leaf design, engine-turned back cover, hinged gold cuvette engraved with prize medals. D. White enamel with printed Arabic numerals, outer minute track and outermost 1/5th second chronograph divisions with 5-second Arabic markers, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel spade hands. M. 48 mm (21'''), gilt brass, 14 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a push piece in the band, centrifugal governor. Dial signed, numbered in the case. Diam.54 mm.