38,295 HKD
Koppen à Paris, Hger. Mcien. de S.M. le Roi de Prusse, rue Neuve Saint Augustin No. 9, Paris, circa 1810. Fine and unusual 18 ct. gold, quarter repeating watch with alarm. Three body, Empire with reeded band and engineturned back. Hinged gilt brass cuvette. White enamel with Breguet numerals and inner alarm setting ring. Gold hands. GiIt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with diamond end-stone. Repeating on two gongs by depressing the pendant, alarm striking on a separate gong. Signed on the cuvette and the back plate. In very good condition with a gilt brass continental key. Diam. 56 mm. Notes An unusual feature of this watch is the alarm which has to be set in the same way it was working on the Louis XIV "oignons": the blued steel hand is revolving together with the hour hand and the alarm is released at 12. That means it has to be set according to the number of hours to pass before it rings and not at the alarm time as in most of modern watches.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1994-06-17