43,200 HKD
Thin Minute-Repeater Touchon & Co. , Genève, No. 14642. Made for Smith Patterson Company, Boston, circa 1910. Fine and rare, thin, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold dress watch with “Extra” adjustment. Four-body, “demi-bassine”, polished, concealed hinge, the back cover with an applied square plaque. Matte painted offwhite with painted black Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Gilt Louis XV hands. Cal. 18’’’, “Extra”, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Case and movement signed, dial and movement signed for the retailer. Diam. 46 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-08
