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The Furama Hotel Hong Kong, Victoriana Room, Jun 05, 2000

LOT 16

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 centred with a high relief profile of Napoleon underlined with a green enamelled branch of laurel. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with prizes awarded in different exhibition 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 baance, Breguet balance spring. Repeating on gongs with slide in the band. Chronograph with visible work and push piece in the band.Signed on the case, cuvette and movement.Diam. 55 mm.