19,800 CHF
Lady’s Minute Repeater Swiss, probably Le Brassus or Le Sentier, No. 14055, case No. 41097. Made circa 1900. Fine and rare, small, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, lady’s half-hunting cased, keyless pendant watch. Four-body, “bassine”, engine-turned back cover with ribbon and flower decoration, the front cover decorated to match and with black champleve enamel Arabic numerals, inner minute track, polished borders. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel double spade hands. 12’’’1/2, frosted gilt, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band. Numbered 14055 on the dial plate. Diam. 34 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-03-16
