Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Nov 25, 2006

LOT 57

"Minute Repeater Chronograph" Tempora (Le Phare), Le Locle & La Chaux de Fonds, No. 259617. Made circa 1915. Fine, large, minute-repeating, 18K gold hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with chronograph.

HKD 23,000 - 30,000

USD 3,000 - 4,000 / EUR 2,400 - 3,000

Sold: HKD 35,400

C. Four-body,"bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute and fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. 47 mm.(21'''), frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a pusher in the band, silent centrifugal governor. D ial signed, cuvette inscribed L. Boon, Antwerpen. Diam. 55 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Le Phare The company was founded as Guye & Barbezat, the founders were Charles Barbezat-Baillot (1847-1938) and Henry Guye (1838-1877). In 1888, the firm's name was changed to Le Phare, being the registered name of their complicated watches. In 1900, Barbezat-Baillot advertised their brands that year as: La Locloise; l'Esperanto; Le Phare; Tempora and La Volapuk. Barbezat-Baillot was a member of the jury at the Brussels Universal Exhibition in 1897 and at Liege in 1905.