28,750 CHF
MEURON - PINK GOLD QUARTER REPEATING AUTOMATON WATCH WITH THREE ACTIONS & THREE HAMMERS - DWARF, MONKEY & CHICKEN Meuron et Compe, 'The Dwarf, Monkey and Chicken', case No. 7631/2799. Made circa 1820. Very fine and extremely rare, large, 18K pink gold and varicolored gold, skeletonized three-hammer and three gong carillion quarter-repeating pocket watch with three automaton actions. Two-body, polished, mastermark PHMI, the back engine- turned. Sprung gilt-rimmed glazed cuvette hinged to the movement ring. Annular white enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track, the center glazed over a finely chased varicolored gold scene of a dwarf and a tree with a monkey, a chicken and another bird in the branches and a fox on a grassy bank below, the dwarf and monkey with automaton arms and the chicken's head moving to peck a bell when the repeating is activated. Gold poire and lozenge hands. 51 mm., matte gilt, skeletonized plates, engraved going barrel, cylinder escapement, three-arm brass balance, flat balance spring, pierced polished steel cock with endstone, index regulator with engraved scale on the plate, repeating with three hammers on three blued steel coiled gongs activated by depressing the pendant. Notes Dial and movement signed, case numbered. DIAM. 61 mm. MEURON & CIE Neuchatel, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Paris and Geneva. Renowned makers of repeating watches, skeleton and complicated watches and watches decorated with pearls and enamel. Working in the last part of th Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-11-10
