Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 18, 1998

LOT 600

W.G. Shoof, 99 St. John Road, Clerkenwell, London, No. 6070, with London hallmarks for 1885. Very fine 18K gold hunting cased, moon phase astronomical keyless minute repeating Grande and Petite Sonnerie, striking clock watch with perpetual calendar, chronograph and 60 minutes recorder .

C. Four body, massive, "bassine et filets", polished, the cover engraved with a crest. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Roman numerals, outer Arabic minutes and chronograph rings, subsidiary dials for clays of the week, months of the leap year cycle, with outer minutes register, the dates and subsidiary seconds with inner moon phase aperture, its age on the border. Blued-steel "spade" hands. M. 19''', giltbrass three-quarter plate, partly Swiss made, double train with differential winding, going train fully jewelled in screwed settings, English pointed tooth lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, free sprung blued-steel balance spring with terminal curve. Repeating and striking on gongs with slide in the band, Grande/Petite Sonnerie/Silent selection levers on the bezel's border. Chronograph with button in the band. Signed on the back plate. Diam. 59 mm.