Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, May 10, 2015
HAAS-PRIVAT MINUTE REPEATER PINK GOLD Haas-Privat & Co, Genève, No. 76651. Made circa 1890. Very fine and rare, large, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold, hunting cased pocket watch.
Four-body, "bassine et filets", solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette, glazed gold-rimmed cover over the movement. White enamel with radial Arabic numerals, outer minute track, outer five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 21''', rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, counterpoised straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.
Grading System | |
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Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 2 |
Very good |
Movement: 2* |
Very good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |