French rose gold hunting cased complicated lever Circa 1895
- Kenmerk
- BA1923
- Diameter
- 55 mm
- Estimate
- € 30.000 - 50.000
- Price sold
- € 33.600
Rose gold lever with eight complications by A.H. Rodanet
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A very fine and rare French 18 carat rose gold hunting cased minute repeating keyless lever pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph, perpetual calendar, phases of the moon and lunar calendar, circa 1895. Rhodium-plated movement, Geneva striping decoration, 29 jewels, calibrated straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs with two polished steel hammers activated by a slide on the band. Gold hinged cuvette. White enamel dial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost chronograph divisions with fifths of a second divisions and Arabic five second/minute numerals, four subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, months concentric with leap year indication, seconds and aperture for the phases of the moon, lunar calendar on the edge, original gold pear hands. Engine-turned case with polished borders, push-button for the chronograph at 1, the split-seconds at 11. Cuvette signed, case numbered.
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Diameter: 55 mm
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Signed: A.H. Rodanet Constructeur de Chronometres 36 Rue Vivienne Paris
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The 8 complications: minute repeating, chronograph, split-seconds, perpetual calendar, date, days of the week, months, moon phases and age.
Signed: A.H. Rodanet Constructeur de Chronometres 36 Rue Vivienne Paris



















