11,250 CHF
LECOULTRE & CO – PINK GOLD MINUTE REPEATING LeCoultre & Co. , “Repetition a Minutes”, retailed by Marius Favre & Co., Genève, No. 16125. Made circa 1910. Fine, large, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold, hunting cased, keyless pocket watch. Four-body, “bassine et fi lets”, polished. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved inscription. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outer Arabic fi ve-minute numerals, inner red 24-hour numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold Louis XVI hands. 19’’’, rhodium plated, wavy-line decoration, 35 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold meantime and temperature adjustment screws, Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Movement signed LeCoultre & Co. under the hour hammer, cuvette signed by Marius Favre & Co.. Diam. 56 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-11-11
