Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Grand Havana Room, May 26, 2004

LOT 232

Geneva, No. 18669. Produced circa 1890. Very fine, keyless, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K gold watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and chronograph.

C. Four-body, solid, case back engraved with blank crest within foliate decoration, engine-turned border, gold hinged cuvette.D. White enamel with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph track divided into 1/5th seconds with five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, 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 phases, aperture with moon age sector at the top. Gold ?Louis XV? hands. M. Cal. 45 mm (20???), maillechort,?fausses côtes? decoration, 35 jewels, straight line calibrated lever ecapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band.Diam. 56 mm.