10,625 CHF
WITTNAUER MINUTE-REPEATER Wittnauer & Co. , Geneva, movement No. 17849, case No. 18046. Made as a pendant watch circa 1900. Fine, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold wristwatch. Four-body, “bassine”, polished, articulated upper lug above the crown, the back with engraved monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with black radial Arabic numerals, outer minute track and red Arabic fi ve-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Gold spade hands. Cal. 12’’’, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 10 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-11-11
