324,000 HKD
Westminster Chime Carillon Minute Repeater Constant Piguet, Le Sentier, No. 032209, Swiss patent No. 11948. Made circa 1910. Very fine and very rare, 18K yellow gold, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating pocket watch with Westminster chimes carillon with four hammers on four gongs. Four-body, "bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. 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: Exceptional Horological Works of Art, Geneva, October 19, 2002, lot 8; and: Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, Pocket Watches and Clocks, Hong Kong, July 10, 2005, lot 83; Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, Pocket Watches and Clocks, Geneva, May 14, 2006, lot 783 and October 15, 2006, lot 404. A similar watch with Westminster chimes was sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, March 16, 2008, lot 569, for 92,400 Swiss Francs. Constant Piguet IIn 1896
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-08
