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New York, Grand Havana Room, Mar 19, 2003

LOT 163

Unsigned, Swiss. Produced circa 1910.Very fine, 18K gold, minute-repeating watch with chronograph and 30-minute instantaneous minuteregister.

C .four-body, "bassine", front with engraved initials, polished back, gold hinged cuvette. D. white enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions and outermost chronograph track, five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, sunk register at 12 o'clock, subsidiary sunk seconds. "Spade" gold hands. M. 45 mm (20'''), frosted gilt, 34 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws, Breguet balance spring, wolf-tooth winding wheels, repeating on gons by activating slide in the band with patented "silent"governor.Diam. 54 mm.