108th Auction
2023/5/20
Lot 411
Barbezat-Baillot
A fine hunting case quarter repeating pocket watch with chronograph - with original box
Sold
estimated
1.500—3.000 €
Price realized
2.100 €
specific features
Case
18 K gold, engraved monogram "KCW", gold dome with presentation engraving: "Presented to Capt. K. C. Wright by the officers, non-com. officers & men of the Uniondale Town Guard and District Mtd. Troops 4.7.1901".
Dial
Enamel.
Movement
1/2 plate movement, 2 hammers / 2 gongs, "Swiss Patent 13244" (Barbezat Baillot's "Poussette pour montres"), "Swiss Patent 334"(Barbezat Baillot's "Perfectionnements apportés à la construction des mécanismes de répétition pour montres de poche de toutes dimensions"), club-tooth lever escapement, screw compensation balance.
Case no.225707
Diam.51 mm
Circa1900
Ctry.Switzerland
Wt.104 g
Barbezat-Baillot invented the brand Le Phare (= lighthouse) in 1888 and used it as his company name from 1905 on. Barbezat-Baillot was an extremely gifted watchmaker and inventor who registered a large number of patents - Swiss patent no. 334 was one of his most important inventions and included the use of centrifugal force for the repeater mechanism.
Captain K. C. Wright was commandant of the British Bedfordshire Regiment in the Cape Colony in South Africa.