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Haas. A fine and heavy 18K gold hunter case quarter repeating chronograph keyless lever watch

SIGNED B. HAAS JNE & CO., BREVETÉES, PARIS, BESANÇON, GENÈVE, NO. 1407, CIRCA 1880

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Haas. A fine and heavy 18K gold hunter case quarter repeating chronograph keyless lever watch
Signed B. Haas Jne & Co., Brevetées, Paris, Besançon, Genève, No. 1407, circa 1880
Keyless jewelled lever movement, repeating on two steel hammers, glazed dust cover, gold cuvette, white enamel dial, Roman numerals, outer scale calibrated for 300 units, subsidiary seconds, circular engine-turned case, initials CJ to the front, repeating slide and chronograph button in the band, case numbered, cuvette signed
53 mm. diam.

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Lot Essay

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.

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