Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 27, 2019

LOT 396

ARNOLD ROBERT UNDER THE DIRECTION OF EMILE ROBERT HISTORICAL, DECORATIVE LARGE POCKET WATCH, DEAD INDEPENDENT SECONDS, TWO-TIME ZONE, DAY, DATE, COMPASS; SILVER

Silver, open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, large pocket watch, with four horological complications: • Dead independent seconds (exterior graduation with central hand; activated by the rectangular push-piece located on the border of the case at 11 o’clock) • Date of the month (subsidiary dial at 6 o’clock) • Day of the week (subsidiary dial at 6 o’clock; indications given in French) • Hours and minutes of a second meridian, known as petit tour d’heure (subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock; key-setting) • Compass (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock; not considered as a horological complication) The case-back engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with a romantic scene showing a couple of lovers in a garden.