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

LOT 242

Favre Leuba & Co., Bombay, No. 27783, Swiss,made for the Indian Market, circa 1880.Very fine and rare 18K gold and enamel, half skeletonised hunting-cased, keyless minute repeating watch with dead independent seconds.

C. Four-body, massive, ?bassine et filets?, engine-turned with reeded band, the back enamelled with the painted portrait of the first owner. Hinged gold cuvette with engine-turned border. D. Crystal with gilt Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel ?fleurs-de-lys? hands. M. Glazed, 19???, nickel plated with ?fausses côtes? decoration, double train with differential winding, 44 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring. Repeatig on gongs with slide in the band. Independent seconds train with flirt on the escape wheel pinion and bolt in the band.Signed on dial and cuvette.Diam. 54 mm.