Importantes Montres de Collection

Geneva, Nov 13, 2011

LOT 244

PASCAL MARIO HUNTING CASED MINUTE-REPEATER Pascal Mario, Neuchatel, ?Repétition a Minutes, Qualité Extra?, No. 15096. Made circa 1880. Very fine, large, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold, keyless, hunting cased pocket watch.

C. Four-body, "bassine," polished, the front cover with engraved foliate monogram ?DT?, the interior of the back cover engraved ?V.T., 1942?. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the technical details and ?Domenico Toneatti, 1859?, glazed goldrimmed cover to view the movement. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals numerals, outer minute track and Arabic fi ve-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands. M. Cal. 20''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 27 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, counterpoised and calibrated straightline lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 55 mm.