12,500 CHF
SWISS, RETAILED BY E. GUBELIN YELLOW & WHITE GOLD PERPETUAL CALENDAR DRESS WATCH SWISS, retailed by E. Gübelin, Lucerne, movement No. 15420, case No. 50642. Made circa 1920. Very fine and rare, elegant and thin, Art Deco, keyless, 18K yellow and white gold pocket watch with perpetual calendar and moon phases. C. Three-body, solid, “demi-bassine”, polished, white gold band, yellow gold bezel, yellow gold back with white gold border and applied Art Deco monogram HLK. D. Silver with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the months and four-year cycle, days of the week, date and seconds, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold cathedral hands. M. 38 mm, 17’’’, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bi-metallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed by the retailer, case numbered. DIAM. 44 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-05-12
