Brand:
Travail Suisse
Model:
Chronographe Répétition Minutes
Year:
1900
Original Box:
Not Included
Original Papers:
Not Included
Warranty:
12 months
Overall Condition:
Very Good
Wear level Case:
Barely visible
Wear level Caseback:
Barely visible
Wear level Dial:
Barely visible
Wear level Crystal:
Barely visible
Wear level Bezel:
Barely visible
Movement Type:
Manual winding
Case Material:
Yellow Gold
Case Diameter:
52 mm
Bezel Material:
Yellow Gold
Crystal:
Plexiglass
Functions:
Minute repeater, Chronograph, Small seconds, Tempered blue hands, Vintage
This is a Swiss minute-repeating chronograph signed "Travail Suisse," in the grand tradition of turn-of-the-century complicated pocket watches, its 18k gold cuvette engraved "Répétition à Minutes / Chronographe" and embossed with the exhibition medals makers used to advertise their prizes. Open the back and both mechanisms are on show: the rack, hammers and gongs of the repeater around the rim, and the column wheel of the chronograph at the centre.
Two complications share one movement. A slide in the case chimes the time on demand, the hours, the quarters and the minutes, while a button works the chronograph over a white enamel dial with a tachymeter scale and blued steel hands. Minute repeaters use well over a hundred parts and hundreds of hours of hand work, which is why so few were made.
The watch is delivered with all items shown in the photographs.