Only Online Auction
Hong Kong, Mar 03, 2021
LOT 305
Unsigned, attributable to A. Lugrin & Cie, Lémania
Large pocket watch, minute-repeater, chronograph, triple date à guichets (with apertures), moon phases; “Haute Precision”; 14K pink gold
HKD 34,500 - 52,000
CHF 4,000 - 6,000 / EUR 3,700 - 5,600 / USD 4,500 - 6,700
14K pink gold, hunting-case, keyless-winding, round-shaped, large pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 and six horological complications:
· Minute-repeater on two steel gongs by two hammers (activated by the slide located on the case-band at 6 o’clock)
· 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the single olive-shaped push-piece located on the case-band at 12 o’clock) with outer ring divided in 300
· Half-instantaneous date of the month (aperture at 12 o’clock)
· Day of the week (aperture at 9 o’clock; indications given in French)
· Month of the year (aperture at 3 o’clock; indications given in French)
· Phases of the moon (aperture at 6 o’clock)
Cover engraved in taille-douce (fine-cut) with the cypher “F G”. Case-back polished.
Movement 20’’’, gilded brass, going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index-regulator; repeater work with silent centrifugal governor; chronograph work on the top plate.