4,750 CHF
GOLAY-LERESCHE SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD A. Golay-Leresche & Fils, Genève, 2 Rue de la Paix, Paris, No. 17829. Made circa 1890. Very fine and rare, keyless, hunting-cased, 18K pink gold pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and register. Four-body, bassine, solid, polished, rectangular pushers on the band for the start/stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph and split-seconds function. Hinged gold cuvette, glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions with Arabic 5-minute/ seconds numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 18```, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line counterpoised and calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, white metal alloy Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible chronograph work. Notes Dial, case and cuvette signed. DIAM. 50.5 mm. This watch is in extremely good and clean condition.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-09