64,400 CHF
Timekeeper with 7 ComplicationsPaul Jeannot, Genève, No. 1905, circa 1890, made for the Spanish market.Very fine and important, large, 18K gold, hunting-cased, keyless, double-train, astronomical minute-repeating watch with alarm, perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon. Four-body, "bassine et filets", solid, polished, gold hinged cuvette with engraved technical details. White enamel, bold blue radial Roman numerals, blue outer minute ring with gold paillon five-minute Arabic markers, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date concentric with alarm setting, months of the leap year cycle and subsidiary seconds concentric with aperture for phases of the moon with its age, gold paillon decoration. Gold "Louis XV" hands. Notes Jeannot Paul, Genève, Le Locle, La Chaux-de-Fonds.Maker of very high quality Grandes Complications. Specialized in watches for Spain and South American Market, went into partnership with Paul Perret for making pocket chronometers. Patented a number of improvements in watches, among them a mechanism for independent seconds (1889), chronograph (1892), special pin-setting mechanism (1891)."Dictionnaire des Horlogers Genevois" by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, Geneva, 1998.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-11-11
