Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Jun 28, 2020
LOT 107
"IXORA", PICARD & CO.
CHF 4,000 - 6,000
HKD 32,000 - 48,000 / USD 4,000 - 6,000
Sold: CHF 4,750
Large pocket watch, carillon minute-repeater, three gongs, three hammers, chronograph; 18K pink gold. Very fine,18K pink gold, hunting-case, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 and two horological complication: Minute-repeater with carillon on three steel gongs by three hammers (activated by the slide at 6 o'clock) 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the single round push-piece located on the case-band at 12 o'clock) Case-back engraved in taille-douce (fine-cut) with the cypher "V B". White enamel dial with suspended Arabic numerals; yellow gold "Louis XV" hands.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Brand Picard & Cie., La Chaux-de-Fonds
Model Under the trademark "Ixora"
Year Circa 1910-1920
Movement No. 1194
Case No. 200843
Caliber 20''', gilded brass, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, index regulator; repeater work with centrifugal governor; chronograph work on the top plate.
Dimensions 58.6 mm.