Important Collector's Wristwatches & ...

Grand Havana Room, Sep 22, 2004

LOT 172

Le Phare, Swiss, case No. 67499. Produced circa 1910. Very fine, keyless, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with chronograph, register, perpetual calendar and moon phases.

C. Four-body, "bassine et filets", solid, polished, glazed gold-hinged cuvette. D. White enamel with large Breguet numerals, outer minute track, outermost chronograph track divided into 1/5th seconds, five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk dials for the days of the week, the date, the months of the 4-year leap cycle concentric with the minute register, subsidiary seconds concentric with the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. 45 mm. (20'''), gilt, bar caliber, 28 jewels, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band.Diam. 57 mm.