Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 209

TIFFANY QUARTER REPEATER EXTRA MOVEMENT YELLOW GOLD Tiffany & Co., Geneva, Movement by G. Hoff & Fils, La Choux-de-Fond, No. 33420. Made circa 1885. Very fine and rare, quarter repeating, 18K yellow gold hunting-cased keyless pocket watch. Accompanied by the original fitted box.

Five-body, solid, polished, bassine, entire case lavishly engraved and decorated in a floral and leaf pattern, hinged finely engraved gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Arabic numerals, outer minute track with 5-minute red Arabic markers. Gold Louis XIV hands. Cal. 34 mm. rhodium-plated, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide in the band. Dial, case and movement signed.