50,400 CHF
Russian Imperial Presentation Watch 3rd International Exhibition of Automobiles, St. Petersburg, May 1910. Pavel Buhre, Maker to the Royal Family, St. Petersburg, No. 58752. Made for presentation by Czar Nicholas II at the 3rd International Exhibition of Automobiles, St. Petersburg in May 1910. Extremely fine and historically important, large, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, champleve and painted on enamel, rose-cut diamond-set, keyless pocket watch with dual-date calendar, chronograph, instantaneous 30-minute register and moon phases. Accompanied by a Russian 14K (56 Zolotniks) gold fob and the original Pavel Buhre fitted wooden box. Four-body, bassine, polished, the front cover decorated with the Russian Imperial eagle in champleve enamel and set with rose-cut diamonds, white champleve enamel disc below with rose-cut diamond border and gold letters I.A.O.R (in Cyrillic), the back cover decorated with a fine champleve and painted on enamel motor car with a chauffeur driving two ladies, inscribed around the border “3rd International Exhibition of Automobiles” (in Cyrillic). Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute and fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five-second numerals, subsidiary dials for the date, days of the week, 30-minute register and seconds, aperture for the moon phases. Gold spade hands. 20’’’, rhodium plated, 36 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Bre
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-11-14
