$5,640
Minute Repeating, Swiss, case No. 16980. Made circa 1900. Very fine and rare, small, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold keyless dress watch.. Three-body, “demi-bassine,” polished, hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with printed Breguet numerals, outer gold dot minute track with 5-minute Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold Louis XVI hands. 13’’’, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a button on the crown. Diam. 33 mm. Notes The repeater activation button in the winding crown was patented by Wanamaker - Rodman in 1895, Patent No. 11339.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-11
