Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 13, 2012

LOT 212

J. ULLMAN & CO. CHINESE MARKET MINUTE REPEATING CHRONOGRAPH HUNTING CASE YELLOW GOLD & ENAMEL J. Ullmann & Co., Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, locations in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tientsin and Wladiwostock, No. 20091. Made circa 1900. Fine, 14K yellow gold, pearl-set and enamel, keyless hunting cased minute-repeating pocket watch with chronograph.

C. Four-body, polished, front cover painted on enamel with a portrait of a lady, blue translucent enamel background, back with a hunting scene depicting a hunter on a horse and a tiger, band decorated with black enamel inlay, the front and rear bezels set with pearls, hinged gold cuvette with engravings. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and 1/5th second track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds dial. Gilt diamond set Louis XV hands. M. Gilt brass, 18 jewels some with two screwed chatons, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance pring, index regulator, repeating on gongs by activating a slide in the band. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 54 mm.