11,500 CHF
Alliez Bachelard & Terond fils, Geneva, No. 49419, circa 1825.Very fine 18 ct. gold quarter repeating watch set with semi-precious stones. 30.2 mm o, gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain brass balance, continental cock pierced and engraved with the letters ABLotT, repeating on two gongs by depressing the pendant.Signed on the dial, movement, cuvette and initialled on cock.Diam. 42 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, page 202-203. Notes The use of pearls of gold, also called 'granulation', was employed by the ancient Etruscans, who indeed were famous for this difficult and painstaking technique. It involves the formation of tiny beads of gold for decorative purposes. The present lot employs a technique in which ready-to-apply fine gauge gold rope wires or filaments are soldered onto the surface to form the desired pattern.Allier Lot Bachelard Lot Terond.Partners from 1820 to about 1845. From 1828 the firm took the name Alliez, Bachelard et Terond Fils. One of the petitioners in 1829 for a new observatory. They specialised in musical watches, repeaters, and skeletonised watches both in full plate as well as Lepine caliber. They also produced watches for Italy, France and Spain. The order of the names is sometimes inverted.'Dictionnaire des Horlogers Genevois', Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, Geneva, 1998.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31
