GIRARD-PERREGAUX
MINUTE-REPEATER YELLOW GOLD
Girard Perregaux. Case No. 315648. Made circa 1900.
Very fine, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless
hunting-cased pocket watch.
Three-body, bassine, matte, the front cover cast and
chased with two horses within a horseshoe amongst
foliage. Cuvette missing.
Three-piece white enamel with Arabic numerals,
outer minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Gold
Louis XV hands.
Cal. 43 mm. matte gilt, 25 jewels, wolf's tooth
winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic
compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance
spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs with two
polished steel hammers activated by a slide in the band,
centrifugal governor.