51,600 CHF
Claude Meylan minute repeater Claude Meylan, CM, Vallee De Joux, Swiss. Made in the 1990's. Very fine, large, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold wristwatch with an 18K gold buckle. Accompanied by a fitted wooden box. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, snap-on transparent case back, fluted lugs, sapphire crystals. Off-white with painted large black Arabic numerals, minute track, subsidiary dial for the seconds at 9. Pink gold Breguet hands. 37 mm, fully engraved, rhodium-plated, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck regulator, repeating on two gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial singed, case hallmarked. Diam 45 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Notes To the best of our knowledge, fewer than four such pieces were produced.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-03-20
