Haas. A very fine and rare 18K pink gold hunter case minute repeating perpetual calendar keyless lever chronograph watch with moon phases and the royal cypher of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, original certificate and box bearing the same cypher

The following two lots, 230 and 231, were formerly the property of Ferdinand I, King of Bulgaria. Ferdinand I of Bulgaria Born in Vienna on 26 February 1861 as Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the aristocrat was to become the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 until 1918. Son of prince August of Saxe-Coburg (1818-1881) and his wife Clémentine of Orléons (1817-1907), he grew up in a cosmopolitan environment and moved in Austro-Hungarian high nobility circles. Serving as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, he was elected "Knyaz" or Prince Regent by the Grand National Assembly of autonomous Bulgaria on 7 July 1887. His title changed to King or Tsar on 5 October 1908 when the country declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire. The marriage of Ferdinand I to Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma produced four children: Boris III (1894-1943), Kyril (1895-1945), Eudoxia (1898-1985) and Nadezhda (1899-1958). Following the death of his first wife after giving birth to their last child, Ferdinand I married Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz in 1908, the year in which he was crowned King of Bulgaria. He abdicated in 1918 to live in Coburg, Germany, the craddle of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty, where he died in 1948.

SIGNED MAISON B. HAAS JEUNE, BREVETÉE, 5, QUAI DU MONT-BLANC GENÈVE, 104, BD SEBASTOPOL, PARIS, NO. 1779, CIRCA 1890

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Haas. A very fine and rare 18K pink gold hunter case minute repeating perpetual calendar keyless lever chronograph watch with moon phases and the royal cypher of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, original certificate and box bearing the same cypher
Signed Maison B. Haas Jeune, Brevetée, 5, Quai du Mont-Blanc Genève, 104, Bd Sebastopol, Paris, No. 1779, circa 1890
Cal. 18''' nickel-finished lever movement, 36 jewels, bimetallic compensation balance, minute repeating on two steel hammers, glazed dust cover, gold cuvette engraved with the inscription Chronomètre Répétition Minutes Quantième Perpétuel, Phases de Lune and a ribbon with attached orders, white enamel dial, Roman numerals, outer scale calibrated for 300 units, four subsidiary dials for month and leap year, day, date and constant seconds with moon phases and lunar calendar, heavy circular case, engraved Royal cypher of King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria surmounted by a crown to the front, engraved initials to the back, repeating slide and chronograph button in the band, case numbered, cuvette signed
55 mm. diam.

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With B. Haas Jeune & Cie. original certificate no. 1779 with handwritten instruction manual to the back and original fitted rosewood presentatiion box, inlaid cartouche with blue cypher of King Ferdinand I to the cover.

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.

SIGNED MAISON B. HAAS JEUNE, BREVETÉE, 5, QUAI DU MONT-BLANC GENÈVE, 104, BD SEBASTOPOL, PARIS, NO. 1779, CIRCA 1890

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