Bi-color gold Chronometer no. 69230

Case: Dial: Movement: Provenance: 19?? - Haas Neveux, Geneve 2002 - Antiquorum, 8 Jun 2002, est HKD 7,800 - 11,700 , sold HKD 9,775 , "Haas Neveux, Geneva, No. 69230, circa 1900.Fine 18K two-tone gold, keyless dress watch. C. Three-piece, polished, yellow gold back and band, white gold faceted bezels. D. Silver, matted, Arabic numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary sunk seconds. M. 37.2 mm.ø, rhodium-plated, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel flat balance spring, stamped with Seal of Geneva quality mark.Stamped with the maker's mark inside back cover.Diam. 43 mm. Haas, Neveux & Cie.Successors from 1885 to B. Haas Jeune, 5 quai du Mont-Blanc à Genève and 104 Bd Sébastopol à Paris. Specialized in high quality watches, often with complications, patented an interesting winding system implemented by closing the cover. They made numerous watches for Observatory Trials and won prizes at the Exhibitions of Vienna in 1873, and Geneva in 1896.Bibliography: "Dictionnaire des Horlogers Genevois" by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, Geneva, 1998."