36,800 CHF
Louis Elisée Piguet, No. 2776, made to the design of Louis Brandt & Frère (Omega), retailed by H. Barbezat-Bole, Le Locle, circa 1900.Very fine and important 18K gold hunting-cased keyless double-train carillon Grande Sonnerie clockwatch with minute-repeating, chronograph and instantaneous center 60-minute register. Four-body, massive, "bassine et filets" polished, gold hinged cuvette over glazed gold bezel for viewing the movement. White enamel, double sunk, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost chronograph track, five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds. Notes The watch combines a number of unusual features; the basic sonnerie movement is based on Henri Golay's 1859 inven-tion for striking watches with a minute-repeating mechanism. It was improved to the status of carillon by Louis Brandt & Frère , who registered Swiss patent No. 7832 on December 30, 1893. (Louis Brandt was the founder of Omega.)It was then fitted with a chronograph with a rare type of instantaneous center register. It was executed by one of the best makers of complicated pieces of the time, Louis Elisée Piguet.Louis Elisée Piguet (1836 - 1924)From Le Brassus, he made a number of exceptional timepieces, such as a "grande sonnerie" with seven hammers. Some of the most complicated watches sold in Glashütte employed L. E. Piguet movements. Patek Philippe, Vacheron & Cons-tantin, and Breguet, just to mention a few, employed his movements on special occasions. He impr
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-11-16
