2,280 CHF
Italian Quarter-Repeating Pocket Watch F. Ant.o Felicetti, Napoli. Made circa 1780. Fine and very rare, Italian, quarter-repeating, silver-gilt pocket watch . Two-body, “Louis XV”, bezel and band decorated with concentric rings. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals. Gilt and rose-cut diamond-set hands. 34 mm., frosted gilt full plate, pentagonal baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, three-arm steel balance, flat balance spring, pierced and chased continental balance cock, silver regulation dial, repeating on a bell in the back of the case activated by depressing the pendant. Movement signed. Diam. 46 mm. Notes Italian watches with a Naples signature are very rare. Felicetti Working in Naples in the second half of the 18th century, this maker wrote a description of the Farnese planisphere clock in the Vatican.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-16
