233,000 CHF
“Nobel Brothers’ Petroleum Company Presentation Grande & Petite Sonnerie Clockwatch" Hy. Moser & Cie., Swiss, No. 4100. Especially made for the Nobel Brothers’ Petroleum Company, Baku (Azerbaijan), circa 1890. Very fine and extremely rare, trip-quarter-repeating, 18K yellow gold, polychrome enamel and rose-cut diamond-set, Grande & Petite sonnerie, keyless, hunting-cased, two-train clockwatch. Accompanied by a long 18K gold chain and the original fitted Moser box. Four-body, “bassine et filet”, solid, polished, the front cover decorated with the Russian Imperial arms in black, red and blue champleve enamel and with rose-cut diamond-set crowns, orb and sceptre, the back cover decorated with the finely painted polychrome enamel logo of the Nobel Brothers’ Petroleum Company depicting the Fire Temple of Atashgah near Baku within a red and blue champleve enamel border of ribbons and laurel leaves. Hinged gold cuvette, glazed gold-rimmed cover over the movement. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. 43 mm., frosted gilt, 35 jewels, two-train with tandem winding, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, striking/silent and full strike/quarters only selection levers in the bezel, repeating on gongs activated by a tripslide on the band. Cuvette signed. Diam. 53 mm. Notes Johann Heinrich Moser (1805 – 1874) Swiss watchmak
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-11-11
