Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 524

MINUTE REPEATING, PERPETUAL CALENDAR & CHRONOGRAPH WATCH WITH 7 COMPLICATIONS Swiss, No. 37760. The case with London hallmarks for 1882-1883. Very fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, lunar calendar and chronograph.

Four-body, "bassine", polished, the front cover with engraved arms, crest and motto `Non Nobis Solum` (Not for Ourselves Alone), the back cover with engraved foliate monogram, button at 12 for the start/stop and return-to-zero functions oft he chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost chronograph seconds, four subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months concentric with leap-year cycle, seconds with aperture for phases of the moon with scale for the moon's age on the edge. Blued steel spade hands. 47 mm., matte gilt, 35 jewels, straight line counterpoised and calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating with two hammers on two gongs activated by a slide in the band. Case and movement numbered, case punched PVF and AP.