Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 72

SWISS MINUTE REPEATER & CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD Swiss, Minute repeater, Chronograph, No. 13896, case No. 10816. Made circa 1900. Fine, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating pocket watch with oval-shaped single button chronograph. Accompanied by a fitted box with built-in push button to activate the repeater.

C. Five-body, bassine, polished, hinged gold cuvette with oeil-de-perdrix decoration. D. White enamel with printed Arabic numerals, outer minute track and outermost 1/5th second chronograph divisions with Arabic markers calibrated to 300, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Gold Louis XIV hands. M. 48 mm (21???), gilt brass, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a push piece in the band. Numbered in the case and movement. DIAM. 55 mm. Property from an American Collection