$5,000
TOUCHON MINUTE REPEATER YELLOW GOLD Touchon & Co. , Genève, in partnership with Wittnauer & Co., Switzerland, No. 136698. Made in the 1920s. Fine and rare, thin, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold dress watch. Four-body, polished, semi-concealed hinge. Hinged gold cuvette. Matte champagne with black champleve dauphine numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Black Breguet hands. Cal. 17’’’, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 23 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 5 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and movement signed Touchon & Co., case also signed Wittnauer & Co., Switzerland. DIAM. 46 mm. Property from an American Collection
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-04-10
