Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Grand Havana Room, May 26, 2004

LOT 194

Swiss, produced for E. Chomas, Horloger de la Marine de l?Etat, 10 rue la Böetie, Paris, No. 2264 circa 1900. Very fine, hunting cased, keyless, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K gold watch with instantaneous perpetual calendar, chronograph and moon phases.

C. Five-body,?bassine?, solid, polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph track divided into 1/5th seconds, four subsidiary sunk dials for the days of the week, the date, the months of the 4 year leap cycle, subsidiary seconds dial concentric with the moon phase aperture with moon age sector in red Arabic at the top. Gold ?spade? hands.M. Cal. 44 mm, rhodium-plated, 33 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band.Cuvette signed.Diam. 55 mm.