Important Collector's Wristwatches & ...

Grand Havana Room, Sep 22, 2004

LOT 41

C. L. Guinand, Swiss, No. 7082. Produced circa 1900. Very fine, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch.

C. Four-body, "bassine", solid, polished, monogrammed case back, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions with red 5-minute Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds dial. Gold "Louis XVI" hands. M. Cal. 17???, frosted gilt, 27 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band.Dial and movement signed, case numbered.Diam. 47 mm.