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Geneva, Nov 08, 2026

LOT 403

SAMUEL & SON, ENGLAND, TRIP MINUTE-REPEATING “GRANDE & PETITE SONNERIE” CLOCKWATCH, WITH PERPETUAL CALENDAR INDICATED IN ARABIC SCRIPT AND PHASES OF THE MOON, 18K YELLOW GOLD

CHF 30,000 - 60,000

HKD 286,000 - 580,000 / USD 36,500 - 73,000 / EUR 32,400 - 65,000 / JPY 5,760,000 - 11,510,000

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

Sold: CHF 100,800

A highly unusual and rare 18k gold, manual wind half-hunter cased, keyless pocket watch with trip minute repeater, petite et grande sonnerie, perpetual calendar and moon phases. White enamel dial with Roman numerals and four subsidiary dials: month combined with leap-year indication in Arabic, day of the week in Arabic, date, and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. Slides for strike/silent and quarters/hours selection on the rim.

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Grading System
Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand  SAMUEL & SON, England

Year London hallmarks for 1900

Movement No. 6592

Case No. 6592

Caliber 42 mm., 19 jewels, frosted gilt, 3/4-plate, two-train with Nicole Nielsen tandem winding, jewelled to the center with screwed gold chatons, lateral counterpoised lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature adjustment screws, double-over-coiled blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, striking on gongs and repeating activated by a trip-slide on the band.

Diameter 57 mm.

Weight 223 gr.

Signature Dial and movement, case and cuvette numbered, stamped EN (Emile Nicole)

Notes

A. Samuel & Son, a London-based firm documented from the 19th century, specialised in the manufacture of key-winding and keyless watches, as well as the importation of Geneva-made timepieces. From 1897, the firm is listed as a watch manufacturer at 94 Hatton Garden, London.

The firm retailed watches by Nicole, Nielsen & Co., a prestigious London watchmaking house founded in 1839 by the Swiss watchmakers Adolphe Nicole and Jules Capt. Following the arrival of the Danish-born watchmaker Sophus Emil Nielsen in 1876, the company gained an international reputation for its highly complicated watches, particularly its specially designed tourbillon timepieces, as well as perpetual calendars, split-seconds chronographs and minute repeaters.