63,750 HKD
SKELETONIZED QUARTER REPEATER Half-Skeletonized Quarter Repeating Watch Swiss, No. 3486. Made circa 1820. Fine, thin, 18K gold, quarter-repeating, half-skeletonized pocket watch. Four-body, “Directoire”, engine-turned border, fl uted band. Hinged Gilt transparent cuvette. White enamel, annular with Arabic hour numerals and outer minute track, center disclosing the repeating work. Blued steel Breguet hands. Gilt brass, skeletonized and foliate engraved, going barrel, cylinder escapement with steel escape wheel, plain steel three-arm balance with fl at balance spring, index regulator, repeating on steel gongs with visible shaped hammers activated by depressing the pendant. Dial signed. Diam. 54 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-10-23
