25,000 CHF
OUDIN – TRIPLE DATE CALENDAR & MOON PHASE ‘PORTRAIT OF TSAR ALEXANDER II’ Charles Oudin, H. er de la Marine Imperiale, Fournisseur de sa Sainteté, Her de S.M. L’Imperatrice, Palais Royal 52, Paris, No. 18070. Made circa 1865. Extremely fine and very rare, 18K gold, painted and champleve enamel, keyless pocket watch with triple date calendar with ‘digital’ months, moon phase, lunar calendar and gold wheel train. Four-body, bassine et filets, polished, correctors in the band, the back cover with a finely enamelled oval portrait of the Russian Tsar Alexander II, the outer border decorated with gold foliage and white champleve enamel flowers on a black champleve enamel ground. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary dials for the date and days of the week, apertures for the months and moon phases with lunar calendar on the edge. Gold spade hands. 19’’’, matte gilt, 17 jewels, wolf ’s tooth winding, gold wheel train, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold timing screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 50 mm. Notes CHARLES OUDIN Born in Clermont in 1772. He was a pupil of Breguet and one of his best foremen. He devised a way of fitting equation of time to souscription watches. Oudin was in business on his own in the Galerie de Pierre, Palais Royal, from circa 1804 to 1825, and was then succeed
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-03-17
