Sold for:
11,800 CHF
11,800 CHF
“Quarter Repeating, Dead-Center Seconds” “Lépine a Paris”, Swiss, No. 3704. Made circa 1820. Extremely fine and rare 18K gold triple-train quarter-repeating pocket watch with independent dead-seconds. White enamel, radial Arabic numerals, outer minute/dead-seconds track with five-minute Arabic numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. Notes This watch utilizes an unusual dead center seconds system by Lépine. The present watch was sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, in November 14, 2004, lot 7.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-02
