36,250 HKD
Gustave Sandoz – Five-Minute Repeating Watch Gustave Sandoz, Horloger de la Marine, Palais Royal, 147-148, Paris, No. 6523, the movement supplied by LeCoultre & Cie. Made circa 1880. Fine and rare, five-minute repeating, 18K rose gold, keyless pocket watch. Four-body, bassine, polished, the back cover engine-turned with engraved foliate monogram “JFS”. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and red Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds with red numerals. Blued steel spade hands. 19’’’, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, counterpoised and calibrated straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold meantime and temperature compensation screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, the terminal secured by a stud with two screws, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and cuvette signed, dial plate punched LB & Co., for LeCoultre & Cie, Borgeaud & Co.Diam. 49 mm. Notes Gustave Sandoz Geneva and Paris. The firm apparently began in Paris and was listed there in 1867, 1870 and 1900. The firm won Second Prize and Honorable Mention at the Geneva Chronometer Contest in 1882.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09
