64,400 CHF
Unsigned, Geneva, circa 1870. Very fine and rare 18 ct. gold and enamel, keyless pencil set with a watch and day of the week and month. A gold propelling pencil with a watch in the head, with three successive dials, the first for the day, the second showing hours and minutes, and the third the date. The top panel is engraved with a regulating scale, the sides embossed, engraved and enamelled with foliate and floral decoration. White enamel, Roman chapters, outer minute ring. Blued-steel hands. 6.24 x 6.76 x 30.6 mm, nickel with a nickel train, going barrel, 10 jewels, cylinder escapement, platinum balance, blued-steel blance spring, winding and setting crown attached directly to the barrel arbors, regulating hand on the top, two gold buttons on sides to set the calendar.Dim. Length 109 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 488-489. Notes This is one of the smallest complicated form watches known.A similar watch is published in 'L'Arte dell Orologeria in Europa', Giuseppe Brusa, Bramante Editore, N° 706.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31
