Important Watches and Wristwatches
St-moritz, Badrutt's Palace Hotel, Feb 25, 1990
LOT 88
Dent watchmaker to the Queen, 33 Cockspur Street London, circa 1890.
CHF 40,000 - 50,000
Sold: CHF 59,800
Very rare and fine 18K gold hunting case keyless minute repeating watch with a regulator dial. Four body massive "bassine et filet" polished case. Gold cuvette. White enamel dial with a small Roman offset chapter ring for hours, symetrical subsidiary seconds and outer minute-ring. Blued steel -spade" hands. Very fine guilt brass 19" half plate movement. 29 jewels in screwed settings. lateral English lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance. balance spring with a terminal curved. Repeating on gongs by means of a slide on the band. Signed on the dial and the movement. In very good condition. Diam. 54 mm.
