18,750 HKD
Swiss Quarter-Repeating & Chronograph Swiss, “Repetition Quarts Chronographe”, No. 204810. Made circa 1900. Fine, large, quarter-repeating, 14K rose gold, hunting cased, keyless pocket watch with chronograph. Four-body, bassine, polished, button at 2 for operating the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the technical details and prize medals. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track, outermost fifths of a second divisions and Arabic fivesecond numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gilt Louis XV hands. 21’’’, matte gilt, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by depressing a button in the band. Diam. 60 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09
