3,000 CHF
Schützenfest Bern 1910 – Montre De Tir Omega, movement No. 3630575, case No. 4439913, Ref. 743,19. Case signed Holy Frères, (Saint-Imier). Specially made in 280 examples for the “Eidgenössisches Schützenfest, Bern, 1910” – or Federal Shooting Exhibition in Bern, Switzerland, 1910. Sold on August 5th, 1910. Very fine and important, 18K pink and yellow gold keyless pocket “Première Classe” chronometer with high-relief decoration. Accompanied by the original fitted rosewood box with mother-of-pearl medallion, a gilt and hairwork chain, the original Bulletin de Marche and an Extract of the same. To be sold without reserve Four-body , “demi-bassine”, solid, polished, the back cover cast with the profile of a lady dressed in traditional Bernese costume and headdress and surrounded by the inscription “1910, Bern”. Hinged gold cuvette engraved “Eidgenössisches Schützenfest, Bern 1910, K. Niklaus, Monrepas”. Three-piece white enamel with painted dauphine numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Pink gold spade hands. Cal. 19’’’ LOD, gilt brass, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, eccentric cam micrometer regulator. Dial and movement signed, case signed “Holy Frères”. Diam. 50 mm. Notes Caliber 19’’’ LOD L = Lépine; O = Omega caliber; D = 17 jewels, 8 - 12 chatons, Observatory chronometer, snail regulator, adjusted to less than one minute per month. The Bernese lady depicted on the back cove
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-03-29
