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Haas. A fine and heavy 18K gold hunter case minute repeating perpetual calendar keyless lever watch with moon phases, made for the Spanish Market
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Haas. A fine and heavy 18K gold hunter case minute repeating perpetual calendar keyless lever watch with moon phases, made for the Spanish Market

SIGNED MON. B. HAAS JNE, BREVETÉE, GENÈVE, PARIS, CIRCA 1885

Closed14 May 2012

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CHF 30,000

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Haas. A fine and heavy 18K gold hunter case minute repeating perpetual calendar keyless lever watch with moon phases, made for the Spanish Market
Signed Mon. B. Haas Jne, Brevetée, Genève, Paris, circa 1885
Keyless jewelled lever movement, repeating on two steel hammers, gold cuvette, white enamel dial, Roman numerals, outer scale calibrated for 300 units, four subsidiary dials for month and leap year, day, date and moon phases and constant seconds, finely chased and engraved scroll and foliage decorated case, repeating slide and chronograph button in the band, case numbered, cuvette signed
58 mm. diam.

Specialist note

Haas & Cie. was founded by Leopold and Benjamin Haas in 1848 and manufactured from the beginning small series of gold or platinum watches featuring the classical complications such as perpetual calendars, quarter repeaters, chronographs and split-second chronographs.

Over the years, new family members joined the company and consequently it was renamed to Haas Neveux & Cie. in 1884. In the same year, Haas launched a highly innovative pocket watch with a movement that was wound by opening and closing of the cover. This mechanism was further developed and patented and presented at the 1893 Chicago World Exhibition.