Swiss gold repeater made for the Hispanic market Circa 1900
- Kenmerk
- TA2031
- Diameter
- 58 mm
- Estimate
- € 22.500 - 40.000
- Price sold
- € 37.450
Gold watch with polychrome enamel automaton scene
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A very fine and rare Swiss, large, hunting cased, keyless, 18K gold minute repeating pocket watch with unusual polychrome enamel automaton scene, circa 1900. Torero and Bull by Girard Perregaux, Chaux-de-Fonds. Made for the Hispanic market, circa 1900. An entire engraved case with leaves, scrolls and geometric patterns, the front cover with a central monogram, the back centred with a lion mask. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the technical details within a foliate border, glazed gold-rimmed cover over the movement.
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White enamel dial, annular, Arabic numerals, outer minute track and red-painted five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds, the centre with an enamel automaton scene of a torero and bull, the torero’s arm and the bull’s head moving when the repeating is activated, royal blue translucent guilloche enamel background. Gold pear hands. A rhodium-plated movement, wavy-line decoration, 29 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with peripheral gold adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed.
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Diameter: 58 mm
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Signed: Girard Perregaux Chaux-de-Fonds
Signed: Girard Perregaux Chaux-de-Fonds
























