32,200 CHF
DuBois & Fils, Swiss, circa 1800. Fine and highly unusual "Bras-en-fair" watch with double calendar. Double body, Directoire, polished. White enamel centred with a gilt figure of sun and with further gilt floral decoration. It is divided into four half-moon sectors for respectively: the hours, the minute, the dates and days of the week, on which the indication are pointed by the hands when depressing the pendant. Blued steel "arrow" hands. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece. Signed on the dial and back plate. Diam. 60 mm. Notes Good example of a very are watch based on the same principle as the celebrated Bens-era-l 'air, which were brought back in fashion the 1930 ' s, with very attractive and elegant keyless Art-Deco dress watches produced by Verger for jewellers such as Van Cleef & Arpels iu Paris, Gobelin in Lucerne, Spaulding in Chicago and Charlton & Co. in New York, generally with Vacheron Constantin movements.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1997-10-18
