Henry Capt

Henry Capt Minute-repeater, chronograph (18-carat) Yellow Gold

Brand Henry Capt, Geneva Model - Retailed by - Reference - Movement unnumbered Year circa 1900-1910 Calibre 19’’’, manual-winding, probably 27 jewels Case No. 39 603 Materials (18-carat) Yellow Gold Dimensions Ø 53.1 mm. Thickness 15.5 mm. Weight 100 gr. (approx.) Signature dial Accessories - Henry Capt Pocket watch, minute-repeater, chronograph, minutes counter; yellow gold (18-carat) Yellow gold (18-carat), open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock and three horological complications: • Minute-repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs (activated by the slide located on the case-band at 9 o’clock) • 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the single round push-piece located on the winding-crown) with telemetric scale graduated for 12 kilometres • Half-instantaneous 30-minute counter (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock) Case: four-piece, “Bassine”-style, polished; gold cuvette (dome); oval-shaped clipped bow. Dial: white colour enamel (three-piece), with black painted suspended Arabic “Breguet” numerals; external minute track divided five by five with black painted radiating lines and internal black painted radiating Arabic numerals (5-60); red painted outer chronograph scale; blued steel “Spade” hands. Movement: calibre 19’’’, probably 27 jewels, gilded brass, going barrel, 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, with silent centrifugal force governor to regulate the speed of the repetition mechanism; chronograph work on the top plate. Movement based on the Swiss invention patent No. 334, delivered on January 8, 1889, to Charles Barbezat-Baillot, Le Locle, for a “Perfectionnements apportés à la construction des mécanismes de répétition pour montres de poche de toutes dimensions” (Improvements to the construction of the mechanisms of repetition for pocket watches of all sizes); this patent includes in particular the centrifugal force regulator to regulate the speed of the repetition mechanism.