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Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 12, 2003

LOT 439

Le Phare, Le Locle, made for Frantz Piret, Chevalier de l'ordre de la Couronne, Directeur des Services Frigorifiques de l'etat belge, dated 1931.Very fine, 18K gold massive hunting-cased astronomical perpetual calendar watch with phases of the moon, minute-repeating and chronograph with instantaneous 30-minute register.

C. Four-body, "bassine", polished, gold hinged cuvette engraved with date and dedication. D. White enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, months of the leap year cycle concentric with minute register, and subsidiary seconds at 9 o'clock concentric with phases of the moon aperture. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. 47 mm. (21'''), rhodium-plated, 21 jeels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, silent "cross" centrifugal governor, repeating on gongs by depressing a pushbutton in the band at 6 o'clock.Signed on the cuvette. Diam. 56 mm.