Czapek & Cie, à Genève

A RARE AND INTERESTING GOLD HUNTING CASED WATCH WITH INDICATION FOR DAY COMBINED WITH 8-DAY POWER RESERVE CIRCA 1850, NO. 3430

• Movement: gilded, twin mainspring barrels with tandem winding, lever escapement, 19 jewels, bi-metallic compensation balance, curved regulator index, signed beneath the dial LeCoultre Genève
• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, two sunken subsidiary dials, the left for constant seconds, the right divided in half and with double ended single hand indicating days of the week to the left and power reserve to the right, blued steel hands, the hour hand with fleur-de-lys terminal
• Case: gold, engine-turned covers, the front with monogrammed cartouche, milled band, gold cuvette engraved with movement details and signed and numbered Czapek & Cie, Genève, no.3430
diameter 48mm

Provenance:
Antiquorum Geneva, 16 October 2005, lot 175