Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2011

LOT 128

Feuer Wehr Bern Longines, Swiss, No. 1560263. Made circa 1905. Very fine, keyless, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register.

C. Four-body, demi-bassine, matte, cast and chased with the arms of Bern in high relief and the inscription "Feuer Wehr, Bern", chased foliate and floral bezels and band, foliate cast bow. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved dedication. D. White enamel with bold painted Arabic numerals, outer minute and fifths of a second chronograph divisions, Arabic five minute/ seconds numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and instantaneous 30-minute register. Gilt Louis XV hands. M. Cal. 19.73N, frosted gilt, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic Compensation balance with gold adjusting screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, Wilmot's patent micrometer cam regulator, chronograph work on the back plate activated by a coaxial button in the crown. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 52 mm.