108th Auction

2023/5/20

Lot 162

Girard Perregaux

A rare five-minute repeating hunting case pocket watch

Sold

estimated
2.7004.000 €
Price realized
2.000 €
specific features
Case
14 K pink gold, polished.
Dial
Enamel.
Movement
Bridge movement, ébauche signed: LeCoultre & Co., 2 hammers / 2 gongs, "Patented", club-tooth lever escapement, gold screw compensation balance.
Case no.210380
Diam.52 mm
Circa1900
Ctry.Switzerland
Wt.109 g


The Swiss watchmaker Constantin Othenin Girard founded the company Girard & Cie. in 1852 in La Chaux-de Fonds. In 1956 he married Marie, the sister of renowned chronometer maker Henri Perregaux; in the same year Girard and his brother-in-law established the company Girard-Perregaux.