7,200 CHF
Dent, Watchmaker to The King & Queen, 34, Cockspur Street, London, No. 33757. The case with London hallmarks for 1911. Very fine, half-hunting cased 18K gold keyless pocket watch with chronograph and register. Four-body, “bassine et filets”, master mark RN, polished, hinged and sprung front cover with blue enamel Roman chapter ring, thief-proof swivel bow. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and concentric fifths of a second track, Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds at 9, 60-minute recording dial at 3. Blued steel spade hands. 43 mm., 19’’’, frosted gilt half-plate, 15 jewels, going barrel, lateral English lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold timing and temperature adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, diamond endstone, index regulator, Nicole Nielsen chronograph work mounted on the backplate activated by a button in the band. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 54 mm. Notes This watch bears a secure chronograph system: in order to activate the chronograph, the user first must open the front cover in order to unlock the chronograph button in the band. For a biography of Dent, see previous lot.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-16
