4,920 CHF
Minute Repeating A. Thevenau, (Geneve), No. 1129. Made circa 1910. Fine, minute-repeating, 18K gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch. Four-body, “bassine” polished. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands. 19’’’, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 35 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, counterpoised and calibrated straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Signed on the front plate under the dial. Diam. 51 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-10-04
