Gold Repeating Watch no. 6076

Case: Dial: Movement: Provenance: 19?? - CH Meylan, Brassus 19?? - Cartier 2007 - Antiquorum, 2 Jun 2007, est HKD40-50,000, sold HKD70,800, "?Thin Minute Repeater? C. H. Meylan, Brassus, No. 6076, 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. D. Matte silver with applied polished yellow gold Art Deco ?cubiste? numerals, outer dot minute divisions and subsidiary seconds. Yellow gold ?cathedrale? hands. M. 17.5???, 38 mm, rhodium plated, ?fausses-cotes? 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, case numbered. Diam. 45 mm. Property of an American Lady"