SAMUEL & SON

SAMUEL & SON, ENGLAND, TRIP MINUTE-REPEATING “GRANDE & PETITE SONNERIE” CLOCKWATCH, WITH PERPETUAL CALENDAR INDICATED IN ARABIC SCRIPT AND PHASES OF THE MOON, 18K YELLOW GOLD A highly unusual and rare 18k gold, manual wind half-hunter cased, keyless pocket watch with trip minute repeater, petite et grande sonnerie, perpetual calendar and moon phases. White enamel dial with Roman numerals and four subsidiary dials: month combined with leap-year indication in Arabic, day of the week in Arabic, date, and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. Slides for strike/silent and quarters/hours selection on the rim. Brand: SAMUEL & SON, England Year: London hallmarks for 1900 Case: 6592 Movement: 6592 Caliber: 42 mm., 19 jewels, frosted gilt, 3/4-plate, two-train with Nicole Nielsen tandem winding, jewelled to the center with screwed gold chatons, lateral counterpoised lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature adjustment screws, double-over-coiled blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, striking on gongs and repeating activated by a trip-slide on the band. Diameter: 57 mm. Weight: 223 gr. Signature: Dial and movement, case and cuvette numbered, stamped EN (Emile Nicole) Grading System: EXCEPTIONAL Case: 3 (Good) Dial: 3-01 (Good , HANDS Original) Movement: 3* (Good , Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense) HKD: 286,000 - 580,000 USD: 36,500 - 73,000 EUR: 32,400 - 65,000 JPY: 5,760,000 - 11,510,000 To be sold without reserve A. Samuel & Son, a London-based firm documented from the 19th century, specialised in the manufacture of key-winding and keyless watches, as well as the importation of Geneva-made timepieces. From 1897, the firm is listed as a watch manufacturer at 94 Hatton Garden, London. The firm retailed watches by Nicole, Nielsen & Co., a prestigious London watchmaking house founded in 1839 by the Swiss watchmakers Adolphe Nicole and Jules Capt. Following the arrival of the Danish-born watchmaker Sophus Emil Nielsen in 1876, the company gained an international reputation for its highly complicated watches, particularly its specially designed tourbillon timepieces, as well as perpetual calendars, split-seconds chronographs and minute repeaters.

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