Hong Kong, May 29, 2022

LOT 413

Recordon, lateEmery
Pocket watch, quarter-repeater; 18K yellow gold

HKD 29,100 - 59,000

EUR 3,500 - 7,000 / CHF 3,700 - 7,400 / USD 3,700 - 7,400

18K yellow gold, open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, “Empire”, pocket watch, with one horological complication:
· Quarter-repeater by two hammers on two steel square gongs (activated by depressing the pendant); safety bolt locking the repeater’s functions (slide located on the case-band at 11 o’clock)

Case-back guilloché (engine-turned); fluted case-band; gilded metal cuvette (dome).

White enamel dial, with suspended Breguet numerals; blued steel “Breguet” skeleton hands.

Movement 18’’’ and 21’’’ ½, gilded brass, going barrel, ruby-set cylinder escapement, monometallic balance (gilded brass) and blued steel flat hairspring, blued steel index-regulator with temperature compensating bimetallic curb and polished steel end-piece; repeater work on the main plate, under the dial.


Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Brand Recordon, London

Model probably made in Geneva

Year circa 1800-1810

Movement No. 3 783

Case No. unnumbered

Material 18K yellow gold

Diameter 53.4 mm.

Caliber 18’’’ and 21’’’ ½, ruby-set cylinder escapement

Weight 116 gr. (approx.)

Signature cuvette (dome)