Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

Grand Havana Room, New York, Sep 20, 2001

LOT 117

Lecoultre & Co., Geneva, circa 1880.Very fine, 18K gold keyless, minute-repeating pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph.

C. four-body, "bassine et filets", engine-turned covers, gold hinged cuvette over glazed gold cover for viewing the movement. D. white enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute and seconds divisions with red five-minute/seconds markers, subsidiary sunk seconds. Gold "Louis XV" hands. M. 45 mm ø (20'''), nickel, "fausses côtes" decoration, 34 jewels, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance-spring, wolf-teeth winding wheels, chronograph and spit mechanism on the back, repeating on gongs through activating a slide in the band.Dial signed and movement signed under a hammer.Diam. 58 mm.