UNSIGNED HEAVY AND IMPRESSIVE POCKET WATCH, MINUTE-REPEATER, DEAD INDEPENDENT SECONDS, TRIPLE DATE, MOON PHASES; 18K YELLOW GOLD

UNSIGNED HEAVY AND IMPRESSIVE POCKET WATCH, MINUTE-REPEATER, DEAD INDEPENDENT SECONDS, TRIPLE DATE, MOON PHASES; 18K YELLOW GOLD



UNSIGNED


HEAVY AND IMPRESSIVE POCKET WATCH, MINUTE-REPEATER, DEAD INDEPENDENT SECONDS, TRIPLE DATE, MOON PHASES; 18K YELLOW GOLD






18K yellow gold, hunting-case, keyless-winding, round-shaped, heavy and impressive pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 and seven horological complications:


· Minute-repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs (activated by the slide located on the case-band at 6 o’clock)


· Dead independent seconds (exterior graduation with central hand; activated by the rectangular push-piece located on the border of the case, at 5 o’clock)


· Two barrels with differential gears and bidirectional-winding inspired by Louis-Elisée Piguet’s (1836-1924) works (according to the patent which will be patented in 1895)


· Half-instantaneous date of the month (subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock)


· Day of the week (subsidiary dial at 9 o’clock; indications given in French)


· Month of the year (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock; indications given in French)


· Phases of the moon (aperture at 6 o’clock)






Cover and case-back polished; cover engraved in
taille-douce (fine cut) with the cypher “G L”; gold
cuvette (dome) engraved in
taille-douce (fine cut) with the technical specifications of the movement






White colour enamel dial with radial Roman numerals; pink gold diamond-set “Fantasy” hands.






19’’’, rhodium-plated, going barrel, with “fausses côtes” decoration, gold double-train of wheels, gold screwed-chatons (setting), straight-line equilibrated lever escapement, compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, index regulator; repeater work on the main plate, under the dial.





Year: circa 1880-1890


Case: 9 611 / 80 789


Movement: 9 611


Caliber: 19’’’, straight-line equilibrated lever escapement, 42 jewels


Material: 18K yellow gold


Weight: 169 gr. (approx.)


Accesories: contemporary fitted box




Granding System: AAA |



EUR: 30500 - 51000

CHF: 30000 - 50000

USD: 30400 - 51000





The movement of this quality watch was probably made in the Vallée de Joux, in a workshop of the level of those of:


· Henri-Daniel Piguet (1817-1892), Le Sentier (Vallée de Joux).


· Louis-Elisée Piguet (1836-1924), Le Brassus (Vallée de Joux).


· Emile-Victorin Piguet (1850-1937), “Victorin Piguet”, Le Sentier (Vallée de Joux).