Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2011

LOT 304

Zenith Minute-Repeater & Chronograph Zenith, Swiss, No. 50571. Made circa 1915. Very fine, 14K pink gold hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating pocket watch with chronograph. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box.

C. Four body, "demi-bassine", polished, button at 12 for the start/stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Paris numerals, outer minute track and outermost fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary seconds. Gold Louis XV hands. M. 20''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, 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. Case and movement signed. Diam. 53 mm.