59,800 CHF
Recordon, Spencer & Perkins, London, No. 142, Swiss, made for the Chinese market, circa 1785. Important and large early 20K gold, enamel, ruby and pearl-set quarter-repeating "perpetuelle " watch with special escapement. White enamel (faint hair lines towards centre), with Roman hour and Arabic minute numerals. Moon hands. Gilt-brass full-plate with turned pillars, goingbarrel with self-winding by means of a large navetteshaped weight with unidirectional operation through a ratchet-and-pawl, one straight pin-banking spring on the weight ,the return controlled by a coil spring on the pivot arbour; the weight locked when fully wound by a steel ratchet arm automatically lifted into place by a pin on the barrel cap. Double-wheel duplex escapement with brass `scape wheels, plain three-arm brass balance with flat balance spring and tangential regulator, pierced and engraved continental cock with diamond end-stone. Quarter-repeating on a bell by depressing the pendant. Gilt dust ring. Signed on the movement. In excellent condition. Diam. 70 mm. Notes this watch of exceptionally high quality, extremely well finished and in no way experimental, together with No. 141, (sold by Antiquorum in Geneva, in October 1992, lot No. 468), forms a pair made for the Chinese Market. The workmanship is entirely Swiss in character (with the exception perhaps of the diamond end-stone). The cases which carry the hallmarks of Neuchatel are to be compared with those made by Jaquet-Droz for the Ch Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1997-04-12
