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Auction archive: Lot number 70

Swiss An exceptional 18K gold, enamel and pearl-set two trai...

Important Watches
16 May 2011
Estimate
CHF120,000 - CHF180,000
ca. US$137,344 - US$206,016
Price realised:
CHF159,000
ca. US$181,981
Auction archive: Lot number 70

Swiss An exceptional 18K gold, enamel and pearl-set two trai...

Important Watches
16 May 2011
Estimate
CHF120,000 - CHF180,000
ca. US$137,344 - US$206,016
Price realised:
CHF159,000
ca. US$181,981
Beschreibung:

Swiss. An exceptional 18K gold, enamel and pearl-set two train quarter repeating musical watch
UNSIGNED, CIRCA 1820
Swiss. An exceptional 18K gold, enamel and pearl-set two train quarter repeating musical watch Unsigned, circa 1820 Gilt-finished cylinder movement, plain three arm brass balance, repeating on two hammers, musical pin barrel, "M/S" for "Music/Silence" lever underneath the dial, gold cuvette, white enamel dial, Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds, large circular case, split pearl-set bezel, rim, pendant and bow, the reverse with brown and green enamel, polychrome champlevé floral decorated band, the reverse centred by a painted polychrome enamel scene in the manner of Richter depicting "The Reprimand", quarter repeating through the pendant, music activated by a sliding lever in the band, unsigned 60 mm. diam.

Auction archive: Lot number 70
Auction:
Datum:
16 May 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
16 May 2011, Geneva
Beschreibung:

Swiss. An exceptional 18K gold, enamel and pearl-set two train quarter repeating musical watch
UNSIGNED, CIRCA 1820
Swiss. An exceptional 18K gold, enamel and pearl-set two train quarter repeating musical watch Unsigned, circa 1820 Gilt-finished cylinder movement, plain three arm brass balance, repeating on two hammers, musical pin barrel, "M/S" for "Music/Silence" lever underneath the dial, gold cuvette, white enamel dial, Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds, large circular case, split pearl-set bezel, rim, pendant and bow, the reverse with brown and green enamel, polychrome champlevé floral decorated band, the reverse centred by a painted polychrome enamel scene in the manner of Richter depicting "The Reprimand", quarter repeating through the pendant, music activated by a sliding lever in the band, unsigned 60 mm. diam.

Auction archive: Lot number 70
Auction:
Datum:
16 May 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
16 May 2011, Geneva
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