Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jan 26, 2013

LOT 183

TEMPORA QUARTER REPEATER TRIPLE DATE CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD Tempora, Swiss, case No. 1510. Made circa 1905. Fine, 14K pink gold, hunting cased, keyless, quarter-repeating pocket watch with triple date calendar, chronograph and moon phases. Accompanied by associated fitted leather box.

C. Four body, massive, polished, very finely engraved on both sides with a floral motif and a dragon, hinged gold cuvette engraved with dedication details from 1880?s and 1890?s fairs. D. White enamel with painted Roman numerals, outer minute and 1/5th second track with 5-second Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the date, apertures for days of the week, the months and the phases of the moon. Blued steel spade hands. M. 18???, frosted gilt, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a push-button in the band, chronograph activated by a push-button at 2. Case numbered. Diam. 57 mm