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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 116

Attributable to Le Phare (Barbezat Baillot), Le Locle, Swiss, circa 1920.Very fine and heavy 18K gold hunting cased, moon phase astronomical keyless minute repeating watch with perpetual calendar, chronograph and 30 minutes instantaneous recorder.

CHF 25,000 - 30,000

C. Four-body, ?bassine et filets?, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals outer minutes and chronograph ring, sunk subsidiary dials for seconds with inner moon phase aperture, days of the week, months of the leap-year cycle with outer minute register, and days of the month. Gold Breguet hands. M. 20???, rhodium plated, 29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring. Repeating on gongs with fly regulator and slide in the ban. Chronograph with visible work and push piece in the band.Diam. 56 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: * 4 - 5
Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

The different features of the movement, such as the fly regulator on the repeating train, enable one to think that this watch was produced by Barbezat Baillot in Le Locle, at that time the most important maker of repeating watches of this type, which were commercialised under several trademarks such as Dixi and Le Phare.A very similar watch, signed Le Phare, was sold by Antiquorum in New York on June 20, 1998, lot 55.