4,200 CHF
C. Barbezat-Baillot, Locle Répétition à Minutes - Chronographe Le Phare, (Barbezat-Baillot, Locle), Swiss, case No. 71201. Made circa 1910. Fine, large, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with chronograph. Four-body, “bassine”, polished, the back cover engraved with the coat of arms of a Vicomte and motto "Lux in Tenebris Lucet" (light shines in darkness). Hinged gold cuvette engraved with prize medals. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and outermost fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. Gilt Louis XV hands. Cal. 21’’’, frosted gilt, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, centrifugal governor, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a push-button on the band. Case numbered, cuvette signed "Le Phare". Diam. 56 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-03-20