Important Collectors’ Watches, Pocket...

Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 137

?Minute Repeater, Perpetual Calendar, Chronograph? J. E. Dufour & Cie, E. Wirth, Succ., Genève, No. 15398. Made circa 1900. Very fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, 18K rose gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch, with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon and chronograph.

C. Four-body, "bassine", solid, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with large Breguet numerals, outer minute track, outermost chronograph track divided into 1/5th seconds, five-minute/seconds Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the days of the week, the date, the months of the 4-year leap cycle, subsidiary seconds concentric with the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Gold "spade" hands. M. Cal. 45 mm. (20'''), rhodium-plated, ?fausses cotes? decoration, 32 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Case and movement signed. Diam. 57 mm.