82,600 HKD
“Minute Repeating Perpetual Calendar” B. Poitevin, No. 25356. Made for CHs. Grottendieck, Horloger, Bruxelles, circa 1900. Very fine, keyless, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with perpetual calendar and moon phase. Four-body, "bassine et filet", polished, the hinged and sprung front cover engraved with a monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and red painted five-minute numerals, subsidiary dials for the days of the week, the months, the date and the seconds, aperture for the moon phase. Gold "spade" hands. Notes B. Poitevin Won Honorable mention at the Geneva Chronometer Contest in 1882 with a chronometer timed by C.A. Paillard. Poitevin had a Paris atelier at 22 Rue Vivienne.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-23
