81,250 HKD
Small Minute Repeating Watch Hunt & Roskell, 156 New Bond St. , London, No. 13465, the movement almost certainly supplied by Audemars Piguet. The case with London hallmarks for 1889-1890. Very fine and very rare, small, minute-repeating, huntingcased, keyless 18K gold pocket watch. Four-body, “bassine et filets”, by Alfred Stram (master mark), polished, thief-proof swivel bow. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. 32 mm., 14’’’, frosted gilt three-quarter plate, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature and mean time adjustment screws, Breguet balance spring, the tail held by a polished steel stud screwed to the cock, diamond endstone, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band. Movement signed Hunt & Roskell. Diam. 41 mm. Notes A watch with almost identical movement is illustrated in Audemars Piguet, Brunner, Pfeiffer-Belli & Wehrli, 1993, p.106. The firm of Hunt and Roskell had very close associations with the Swiss watch industry and often used Swiss movements for their precision watches. Hunt & Roskell The firm was begun by gold and silversmith Paul Storr. In partnership with John Mortimer and John Samuel Hunt, he added the retailing of clocks and watches to his activities of selling gold and silver plate and jewelry in their New Bond Street premises. On December 31, 1838 the partnership was dissolved, business
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09
