98,500 CHF
EDOUARD PERREGAUX – EXCEPTIONALLY RARE TWO-MINUTE TOURBILLON DOUBLE-DIALLED WATCH Edouard Perregaux, Locle, case No. 6954/9270. Made circa 1875. Very fine and exceptionally rare, large and heavy, 18K yellow gold, quarter-repeating, double-dialled, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch with visible two-minute tourbillon, triple-date calendar, moon phases and moon’s age indication. Three-body, massive, bassine et filets, polished, master mark FDB, large pendant and bow, glazed gold-rimmed bezels with calendar and moon setting l evers protruding on the calendar side. Meantime dial : white enamel with radial narrow Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. Calendar dial : white enamel with aperture for the tourbillon with regulation scale on the edge, outer date ring, subsidiary dials for the days of the weeks and the months, aperture for the moon phases with moon’s age indication on the circumference. Blued steel calendar hands. 20’’’, matte gilt, jeweled straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with meantime and temperature adjustment screws, upper pivot jewel with screwed chaton, blued steel Breguet balance spring, tourbillon carriage with three equidistant polished steel arms and two-minute rotation period, index regulator on the polished steel bridge, the seconds hand driven by the tourbillon via a train of three additional wheels held by a bridge on the dial plate, a fine spring meshing with the seconds whe
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-03-17
