Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, Apr 28, 2019
LOT 406
PLOJOUX FOR J. W. BENSON POCKET WATCH WITH FOUR HOROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS, INCLUDING MINUTE-REPEATER, CHRONOGRAPH WITH MINUTE RECORDER AND A SECOND TIME ZONE; 18K YELLOW GOLD
HKD 93,000 - 110,000
CHF 11,850 - 14,850 / USD 12,000 - 15,000
Sold: HKD 118,750
18K yellow gold, hunting-case, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 and four horological complications: - Minute-repeater on two steel gongs (activated by the slide at 6 o'clock) - 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the oval push-piece located on the case-band at 12 o'clock) - Instantaneous 60-minute recorder (subsidiary dial at 12 o'clock) - Hours and minutes of a second time zone, known as double tour d'heures (subsidiary dial at 9 o'clock, time-setting by push-pin on the left side of the pendant)
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 1* |
As new Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Brand Plojoux
Model retailed by J. W. Benson, 62 & 64 Ludgate Hill, London, "By Warrant to the Queen"
Year circa 1890-1900
Movement No. 4 449
Calibre 19''', gilded brass, with going barrel, straightline equilibrated lever escapement, compensated balance with gold and platinum poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve
Case No. 4 449
Material 18K yellow gold
Caliber 19''', gilded brass, with going barrel, straightline equilibrated lever escapement, compensated balance with gold and platinum poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve
Dimensions Ø 53.8 mm.
Signature movement (by the maker); cuvette (by the retailer)