Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jul 10, 2005

LOT 275

?Minute Repeating? C. H. Meylan, Brassus, No. 6034, case No. 123456. Made for Andrews & Winsten Inc., circa 1925. Very fine and rare, thin, minute-repeating 18K yellow and white gold keyless dress watch.

C. Three-body, ?bassine et filets?, brushed white gold bezels, polished yellow gold back and band. D. Brushed, silvered, with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals, outer dot minute markers, subsidiary seconds. Yellow gold Breguet hands. M. 17???, rhodium plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 29 jewels, three held in gold chatons, calibrated straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with eight adjustments and gold timing screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on two gongs activated by a slide in the band. Movement signed. Dial signed by the retailer. Diam. 45 mm.