91st Auction
2015/5/16
Lot 365
Meylan Frères à Genève / Auguste Richard, New York, Case No. 2658, 54 mm, 173 g, circa 1890
A heavy minute repeating hunting case pocket watch with chronograph, perpetual calendar and moon phase
Case: 18k gold, polished, à goutte, signed gold dome, punch mark "MF", pusher for chronograph at "12", slide for repeating mechanism. Dial: enamel, radial Roman hours, auxiliary seconds, three subsidiary dials for indications of the weekday, the date and months under consideration of the leap year, cobalt blue enamelled moon phase disc with inlaid golden moon and stars, blued spade hands. Movm.: bridge movement, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, finely ground and bevelled chronograph steel parts, ratchet wheel, 2 hammers / 2 gongs, screwed gold chatons, wolfteeth winding wheels, gold screw compensation balance, counterpoised lever.
A heavy minute repeating hunting case pocket watch with chronograph, perpetual calendar and moon phase
Case: 18k gold, polished, à goutte, signed gold dome, punch mark "MF", pusher for chronograph at "12", slide for repeating mechanism. Dial: enamel, radial Roman hours, auxiliary seconds, three subsidiary dials for indications of the weekday, the date and months under consideration of the leap year, cobalt blue enamelled moon phase disc with inlaid golden moon and stars, blued spade hands. Movm.: bridge movement, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, finely ground and bevelled chronograph steel parts, ratchet wheel, 2 hammers / 2 gongs, screwed gold chatons, wolfteeth winding wheels, gold screw compensation balance, counterpoised lever.
Sold
estimated
28.000—32.000 €
Price realized
33.200 €