52,800 CHF
Minute Repeating, Perpetual Calendar & Chronograph Attributed to LeCoultre, case No. 120819, retailed by Hauserzivy & Cie, Mexico-Paris. Made circa 1890. Very fine and rare, large, heavy, minute-repeating, 18K rose gold and diamond and ruby-set, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar, chronograph, phases of the moon and lunar calendar. Four-body, “bassine et filets”, massive, the front cover decorated with translucent red enamel and set with a rose-cut diamond and ruby flower spray, engraved border and band, the back cover decorated to match with a rose-cut diamond-set star. Hinged gold cuvette with engine-turned border and engraved and enamelled with the technical details. Glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and concentric five-seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the date, days of the week, 4-year cycle and seconds, aperture for the moon phases with lunar calendar at the edge. Blued steel spade hands. 20’’’, rhodium-plated, 35 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, visible chronograph work, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed by the retailer. Diam. 58 mm. Notes What is a Perpetual Calendar? A perpetual calendar is a calendar mechanism which, unlike a simple calendar, automatically adjusts to the correct day of the month by acc
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-11-14
