Gold Repeating Watch no. 6069

Case: Dial: Movement: Provenance: 19?? - CH Meylan, Brassus 2007 - Antiquorum, 2 Jun 2007, est HKD40-50,000, sold 64,900, "?Thin Minute Repeater? C. H. Meylan, Brassus, No. 6069, retailed by Cartier. Made circa 1930. Very fine, thin and elegant, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold keyless dress watch. To be sold without reserve C. Three-body, 'bassine pincée', polished, concealed hinge, the interior of the back cover with engraved dedication. D. Brushed silver with applied polished yellow gold Arabic quarter-hour numerals and baton indexes, outer dot minute track, subsidiary seconds. Yellow gold ?alpha? hands. M. 17.5???, 38 mm, rhodium-plated, ?faussescotes? decoration, 29 jewels, some in screwed gold chatons, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial signed for Cartier, movement signed by Meylan. Diam. 45 mm. Property of an American Lady "