$3,250
SWISS QUARTER REPEATER & CHRONOGRAPH Swiss, No. 64065. Made circa 1900. Fine quarter-repeating, 14K pink gold, hunting-cased pocket watch set with chronograph. Accompanied by gold plated brass chain and fob. Four-body, bassine, polished, button at 12 for the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with Arabic numerals at 5 minute intervals and 1/5th of a seconds divisions, subsidiary seconds. Gilt Louis XIV hands. Frosted gilt, jeweled, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, column wheel chronograph exposed. Case and movement numbered. Diam. 59 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-12-07
