Sold for:
40,250 CHF
40,250 CHF
Voumard, Locle, Geneva hallmark, circa 1840. Very fine 18 ct. gold and enamel two-train, quarter repeating, hour-striking musical watch with centre seconds and special escapement, made for the Chinese market. 51.9 mm o, gilt brass, bridge calibre, fullyengraved, going barrel, ruby duplex escapement, three-arm steel balance, blued-steel balance spring, double pin revolving plate playing with 25 tuned teeth in a fan-shape, playing on the hour and on demand, quarter-repeating on gongs by a pull-and-twist piston in the pendant.Signed on the movement.Diam. 62 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 294-295.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31
