4,800 CHF
Quarter-Repeating Triple Date Calendar & Chronograph Eberhard & Co. , Chaux-de-Fonds, No. 174306, the movement supplied by A. Lugrin (Chaux-de-Fonds). Made circa 1905. Fine, large, quarter-repeating, 18K yellow gold hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with chronograph, triple date calendar, moon phases and lunar calendar. Four-body, "bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, dauphine numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost fifths of a second divisions with Arabic five second numerals up to 300, subsidiary dials for the date and seconds combined with lunar calendar, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Blued steel spade hands. Notes The firm of A. Lugrin supplied movements only, “with all complications desired”. See: Swiss Timepiece Makers, 1775-1975, Kathleen H. Pritchard, Vol. II, 1997, p. L-102.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-03-29
