Important Collector's Wristwatches & ...

Grand Havana Room, Sep 22, 2004

LOT 122

(Le Phare), Le Locle, No. 19969, circa 1915. Fine, 18K gold hunting-cased minute-repeating watch with chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register

C. Five-body, "bassine", engine-turned, front with applied gold monogram, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, minute register at XII, sunk subsidiary seconds at VI. Gilt "spade" hands. M. 45 mm. (20'''), frosted gilt, 28 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance-spring, silent two-arm centrifugal governor, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Diam. 53 mm.