A10045

Minute Repeating Gold Calendar Hunter

£5,900.00

Signed  Vulcain Chaux de Fonds
Circa   1890
A large late 19th Century Swiss minute repeating moonphase calendar in a gold full hunter case.
Diameter   59 mm         

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Description

A large late 19th Century Swiss minute repeating moonphase calendar in a gold full hunter case.  Gilt split three quarter plate keyless movement with going barrel.  Plain cock with polished steel regulator, compensation balance with overcoil hairspring. Club foot lever escapement, screwed in jewelling.  Polished steel flyback chronograph work above the plates.  Slide minute repeating on two steel gongs, small visible regulator to the repeating train, jewelled to the hammers.  White enamel dial with flyback centre seconds chronograph. Subsidiaries for date and seconds combined with the moonphase below.  Rectangular apertures for day and month in German either side of the centre, Arabic numerals, blue steel seconds  hands, pierced gilt hands.  Large plain 14 carat rose gold full hunter case of heavy gauge, gold cuvette detailing features of the watch.  Gold slide in the band for the minute repeat and a smaller button at twelve o'clock for the chronograph.

An impressive watch.  The case far more substantial than commonly found