23,000 CHF
Piaget, Swiss, circa 1810. Very fine and rare small gilt-bronze hour and halfhour striking, hour repeating Pendule d 'Officiers with musical movement in the base. Gilt bronze, fitted on a rectangular ebonised pear wood base with paw feet, the engine-turned bezel flanked by two engraved fluted columns, the pediment finely chased with scrolled foliage, side panels applied with trophies, folding serpent handle at the top. Gold engine-turned with Arabic numerals on white enamel cartouches and outer white enamel minutes ring. Blued-steel fancy Breguet hands. Gilt-brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain gilt-brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt-brass balance cock pierced in a star pattern. Striking and repeating train with fixed barrel with revolving arbor, striking and repeating on a bell with striking work on the back plate. The fixed barrel of the alarm train with revolving arbor. Musical movement in the base made in Geneva with pin-cylinder, fly regulator and a comb made of screwed 17 groups of three teeth. Signed on a white enamel cartouche on the dial. Dim. 18 x 9,5 x 7,5 cm., including the handle. Notes As opposed to most miniature Pendoles d'Officiers usually reproduced in Paris by L. Leroy & Cie, circa 1900, this clock was undoubtedly made in Switzerland at the same period as the regular type, made in the area of Neuchatel or La Chaux-de- Fonds. It is of very high quality, the dial being made of gold instea Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1998-04-18
