$6,555
Meuron & Comp, Swiss, circa 1810. Very fine and rare, 18K gold, Grande et Petite Sonnerie clockwatch with quarter-repeating and visible striking and repeating works. four-body, "Empire", engine-turned back cover, reeded band, gold hinged, glazed cuvette with slots for silent/striking and grande/petite Sonnerie. white enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute ring. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. 49 mm ø, gilt brass full plate, fixed barrel, 6 jewels, cylinder escapement, three-arm, probably platinum balance, blued steel flat balance-spring, striking and repeating works set on the skeletonized and reeded frame fixed to the back plate, two gongs, repeatingy pushing a button in the pendant.Signed on the dial.Diam. 56 mm. Notes Meuron & Cie. Beginning of the 19th century. Neuchâtel, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Paris, Genève. Made self-winding watches, watches decorated with pearls and enamel, repeaters, watches with automata, equation of time, complicated watches, table clocks, cartels, and pendules d'officier."Dictionnaire des Horlogers Genevois" by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, Geneva, 1998.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-09-20
