Sandoz Pocket watch, minute-repeater; 18K yellow gold | Only Online Auction | Hong Kong, October 14, 2021
Sandoz Pocket watch, minute-repeater; 18K yellow gold, 18K yellow gold, half-hunting-case, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 and one horological complication:, · Minute-repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs (activated by the slide located on the case-band at 6 o’clock)Cover and case-back guilloché (engine-turned); cover with round aperture and black champlevé enamelled radial Roman numerals; case-back with an applied escutcheon with the cypher “J L”.White enamel dial, with radial Roman numerals; gilded metal “Spade” hands.Movement 18’’’, ¾ plate, nickel-plated, going barrel, gold screwed-chatons (setting), straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index-regulator; repeater work on the main plate, under the dial.Brand Sandoz, probably Le Locle
Model retailed by A. Rossel, Bogota (Colombia), No. 39 104
Year circa 1880-1890
Movement No. 757
Case No. 39 104 (by “J N”, Neuchâtel mountains)
Material 18K yellow gold
Diameter 53.3 mm.
Caliber 18’’’, straight-line lever escapement
Weight 129.5 gr. (approx.)
Signature cuvette (dome; by the retailer) and movement (coat-of-arms of the maker with the motto of the Sandoz family, “Sine Dolo”)
