Important Collectors Wristwatches, Po...

Geneva, Nov 14, 2009

LOT 162

Minute-Repeater & Chronograph Zenith, Swiss, No. 152347. Made circa 1915. Very fine, 18K yellow gold hunting-cased, keyless minute-repeating pocket watch with chronograph.

C. Four body, massive, "demi-bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with prize medals. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute track and outermost fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands. M. 20''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 54 mm.