Swiss silver niello complicated pocket watch Circa 1890
- Kenmerk
- TA5422
- Diameter
- 61 mm
- Estimate
- € 9.000 - 17.500
- Price sold
- € 15.550
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A heavy Swiss silver niello and pink gold keyless pocket watch with six horological complications, made by A.Huguenin in Le Locle, circa 1890. Large hunting cased pocket watch with a minute repeater, chronograph, triple date, and moon phases. Cover and case back engraved in niello technique with foliage on the cover, an inlaid pink gold motif representing a terrestrial globe surrounded by astronomical and scientific instruments. White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, and blued steel Breguet hands. A rhodium plated movement, going barrel, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index regulator; repeater work on the main plate, under the dial, chronograph work on the top plate. Signature on the movement.
Diameter: 61 mm
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Weight: 212 g
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Signed: A. Huguenin, Le Locle
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Accompanied by the original fitted box, additional glass, silver niello and pink gold chain (Lengte: 260 mm./ Weight: 27.7 g.)
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Six horological complications:
-Minute repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs, activated by the slide located on the case band at 6 o’clock.
-¼ second chronograph, activated by the single olive shaped push piece located on the case band at 12 o’clock.
-Half-instantaneous date of the month, subsidiary dial at 9 o’clock.
-Day of the week, subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock; indications given in English.
-Month of the year, subsidiary dial at 6 o’clock; indications given in English.
-Phases of the moon, aperture at 12 o’clock.
Signed: A. Huguenin, Le Locle
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