Exceptional horologic works of art

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Oct 11, 2003

LOT 304

Girard-Perregaux, Chaux-de-Fonds, No. 535641,circa 1910. Fine and unusual 18K gold hunting-cased, keyless minute repeating watch with chronograph.

C. four-body, massive, frosted with polished band, the cover centered with a high relief profile of Napoleon above with a green enameled branch of laurel. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with prizes awarded in different exhibitions between 1900 and 1910. D. white enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minutes and chronograph rings and sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel ?spade? hands.M. 20''', rhodium plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring. Repeating on gongs with slide in the band. Chronograph with visible work and push piece in the band.Case, cuvette and movement signed.Diam. 55 mm.