56,250 HKD
Haas & Privat, Chaux-de-Fonds, No. 26333. Made for the South American market circa 1890. Very fine 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased, keyless minuterepeating pocket watch. Four-body, “bassine et filets,” front and back covers with engine-turning, floral decorated cartouche with initials, reeded band, gold hinged cuvette engraved with movement details. Silver with printed radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, center and the outermost in applied gold floral decoration, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel spade hands. 40 mm, nickel, damascened, 28 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Diam. 51 mm. Thickness 15 mm
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-02-26
