$3,540
“Minute-Repeater” Jean Pourrat, Fabricant d’Horlogerie, 4 rue Bonivard 4, Genève, case No. 31949. Made circa 1900. Fine, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold garnet-set pocket watch with chronograph. Four-body, "bassine et filets", solid, entirely decorated with scrolling and floral motives, vermicelli band, monogrammed front set with 16 round garnets. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel "spade" hands. Cal. 19 1/2’’’, “maillechort”, 33 jewels, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Case signed and numbered. Diam. 54 mm. Notes Jean Pourrat is registered as having worked in Geneva at the end of the 19th century. See: “Dictionnaire des horlogers genevois”, by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, 1998.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-03-28