342,200 HKD
“Minute Repeater & Perpetual Calendar” Swiss, probably LeCoultre, No. 15004. Made for the Russian market circa 1890. Extremely fine and rare, large, minute repeating, astronomic, 14K pink gold, hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar and moon phases. Four-body, “bassine et filet”, heavy, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the months and four-year cycle, date, days of the week and seconds, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel “spade” hands. 43 mm., 19’’’, rhodium plated, “fausses-cotes” decoration, 31 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Diam. 55 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
