Henry Capt

Henry Capt

Brand Henry Capt, Geneva Year circa 1900-1910 Movement unnumbered Calibre 19’’’, manual-winding, probably 27 jewels Case No. 39 603 Material/s yellow gold (18-carat) Dimensions Ø 53.1 mm. Thickness 15.5 mm. Weight 100 gr. (approx.) Signature dial 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.