Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

New York, Grand Havana Room, May 21, 2003

LOT 248

B. Haas Jne, Geneva, No. 15527, circa 1890.Very fine, 18K gold, hunting-cased, keyless astronomical quarter repeating watch with perpetual calendar and phases of the moon.

C. five-body, "bassine", polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute track with gold five-minute markers, four subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months of the four-year leap cicle and phases of the moon aperture concentric with subsidiary seconds. "spade" gold hands. M. 43 mm (19'''), nickel, 31 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, punched twice with Geneva Quality Hallmark, reeating on gongs through a slide on the band.Case signed.Diam. 58 mm