Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 266

?Répétition à Minutes - Chronographe? Fr. Retz & Cie., Chaux-de-Fonds, ?Répétition à Minutes - Chronographe?, No. 21215. Made circa 1890. Very fine, hunting cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with single button chronograph. Accompanied by a fitted box and original certificate.

C. Five-body, "bassine et filets", entirely engine-turned, , hinged cold cuvette over glazed cover. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and 1/5th seconds chronograph divisions, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Pink gold ?Louis XVI" hands, set with 3 diamonds. M. Cal. 20''', maillechort, "fausses côtes" decoration, 30 jewels, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, steel Breguet balance-spring, swan neck micrometer regulator, chronograph button on the band, repeating on gongs through activating slide on the band. Dial signed, numbered on the movement, case and cuvette. Diam. 53 mm.