$19,550
Swiss, produced for E. Chomas, Horloger de la Marine de l’Etat, 10 rue la Böetie, Paris, No. 2264 circa 1900. Very fine, hunting cased, keyless, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K gold watch with instantaneous perpetual calendar, chronograph and moon phases. Five-body,“bassine”, solid, polished, gold hinged cuvette. White enamel with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph track divided into 1/5th seconds, four subsidiary sunk dials for the days of the week, the date, the months of the 4 year leap cycle, subsidiary seconds dial concentric with the moon phase aperture with moon age sector in red Arabic at the top. Gold “spade” hands. Cal. 44 mm, rhodium-plated, 33 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band.Cuvette signed.Diam. 55 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-05-26