$3,776
“Minute-Repeating Chronograph” Chronomètre Invar, No. 211285, retailed by Joyeria Inglesa I. Jacoes, Santiago de Chile. Made circa 1910. Fine, large, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with chronograph. Four-body, “bassine”, solid, polished, front cover engraved with a sun, hinged gold cuvette with inscription. Double-sunk white enamel with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute and chronograph divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. Gold “spade” hands. Cal. 21, maillechort, 24 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible chronograph works, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 58 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-06-14
