Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
New York, Dec 07, 2011
LOT 257
SWISS QUARTER REPEATER & CHRONOGRAPH Swiss, No. 202568. Made circa 1910. Fine quarter-repeating, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased pocket watch set with diamonds and rubies with chronograph. To be sold without reserve
USD 1,500 - 2,500
CHF 1,300 - 2,200 / EUR 1,000 - 1,800
Sold: USD 2,750
C. Four-body, polished, button at 2 for the chronograph, the front cover with a horse and rider and a large diamond and ruby set horseshoe. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with Arabic numerals at 5 minute intervals and 1/5th of a seconds divisions, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. M. Rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, jeweled, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, column wheel chronograph exposed. Case numbered. Diam. 56 mm
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: A |
Good |
Case: 3-12-19 |
Good Worn Dent(s) |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |