92nd Auction
2015/11/14
Lot 351
Le Coultre & Cie. / Auto Sport F. Senn, Boul. St. Denis, Bâle & Paris, Importé de Suisse, Case No. 37989, 54 mm, 130 g, circa 1920
A rare minute repeating hunting case pocket watch with chronograph, 30 min. counter and concentric tachy scale, to be used for car racing purposes
Case: 18k gold, polished, à goutte, numbered and signed gold dome with engraving, pusher for chronograph at "12", slide for repeating mechanism. Dial: enamel, Arabic numerals, auxiliary seconds, concentric blue/red tachy scale, signed, blued spade hands. Movm.: bridge movement, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, mirror-polished and bevelled chronograph steel parts, ratchet wheel, 2 hammers / 2 gongs, governor for repetition, wolfteeth winding wheels, gold screw compensation balance.
A rare minute repeating hunting case pocket watch with chronograph, 30 min. counter and concentric tachy scale, to be used for car racing purposes
Case: 18k gold, polished, à goutte, numbered and signed gold dome with engraving, pusher for chronograph at "12", slide for repeating mechanism. Dial: enamel, Arabic numerals, auxiliary seconds, concentric blue/red tachy scale, signed, blued spade hands. Movm.: bridge movement, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, mirror-polished and bevelled chronograph steel parts, ratchet wheel, 2 hammers / 2 gongs, governor for repetition, wolfteeth winding wheels, gold screw compensation balance.
Sold
estimated
6.500—8.000 €
Price realized
13.700 €