387,500 HKD
Constant Piguet Westminster Chime Carillon Minute-Repeating Constant Piguet, Le Sentier, No. 3657, Swiss patent No. 11948. Made circa 1910. Very fine and very rare, large, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased, keyless, minuterepeating pocket watch with carillon Westminster chime with four hammers on four gongs. Four-body, "bassine", polished, the front cover with a white champlevé enamel monogram “GB”. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, large Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. 45 mm., 20’’’, gilt brass, 32 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on four gongs with four hammers activated by a slide on the band. Case numbered, movement punched with Constant Piguet’s partial patent number. Diam. 55 mm. Notes Carillon minute repeating watches are very rare; only a few are known with four hammers or Westminster chimes. On March 20, 1896, Constant Piguet patented this system of minute-repeat with carillon, under the No. 11948 . The makers that specialized in this type of watch were Constant Piguet, Eduard JeanRichard, and Victorin Piguet. The known tunes played by four hammer carillons are: - Westminster chimes, - the Swiss National anthem, - God Save the King. A watch playing God Save the King was sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, on November 11, 2006, lot 53. Similar watches were sold by Antiquorum: Hong Kong, June 8, 2008
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09
