Sold for:
18,000 CHF

Musical Watch Key Swiss, Geneva. Made circa 1820. Very fine and extremely rare, gold and painted on enamel keyless musical watch key. Two-body, rectangular with canted corners, wirework terminals, the suspension loop acts as the winding crown, decorated on one side with a painted on enamel scene of two billing white doves within a chased gold and enameled border, on the other side, the head of a winged putto. 27 x 19 mm., brass petit barillet with pinned cylinder, eight blued steel tuned teeth in a vertical stack, start/stop lever in the side of the case. Dim. 30 x 52 mm. In good condition Notes An almost identical key was sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, November 12, 2006, lot 140, for 49,560 Swiss Francs.


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Date:
2009-10-04

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