Swiss gold hunting cased five-minute repeating lever Circa 1900

Gold five-minute repeater by LeCoultre
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A Swiss, very fine and heavy red-gold hunter watch with a very rare five-minute repeater, circa 1900.
Polished 14K pink gold case with engraved monogram and glazed movement. Signed Le Coultre precision lever movement, wolf’s toothing, five-minute repeater. Enamel dial with Roman radial hours, outer minutes track with Arabic five minutes numerals, subsidiary dial for the seconds, and blued Breguet steel hands. Case and movement with matching number.
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Diameter: 54 mm
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Weight: 121 g
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Signed: LeCoultre
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Le Coultre’s five-minute repeaters are extremely rare. This repeater, where the hours are chimed first and then the past five-minute segments, is even rarer than the minute repeater. Only a few signed Le Coultre five-minute repeaters have appeared to date.
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Five-minute repeating is a rare variant of the repeating watch; instead of the more common quarter and minute repeating, a five-minute repeater strikes the hours followed by a single hammer blow for each elapsed five minutes after the hour up to a total of 11 strikes for fifty-five minutes past (five minutes to the next hour).