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

LOT 289

Labaute, LeJeune et Thomas, Nancy (France),circa 1820.Fine and rare 18K gold, quarter repeating, dead centre-seconds watch.

HKD 24,000 - 28,000

USD 3,000 - 3,500

C. Three-body, ?forme quatre baguettes?, engine-turned. Hinged gilt brass cuvette. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals. Blued steel ?scoties? hands. M. Gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, going barrel, cylinder escapement, plain steel four-arm balance, flat balance spring, polished steel balance cock with garnet end-stone. Repeating on gongs by depressing the pendant, the polished steel repeating work exhibited on the back plate. Dead centre-seconds device with roller and wolf tootwheel and pinion.Signed on the cuvette.Diam. 58 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 4 - 14
Movement: * 4
Dial: 4 - 01

Notes

A watch with similar dead centre-seconds mechanism was sold by Antiquorum in Hong Kong on June 18, 1994, lot 341.