10,350 CHF
L' Union est le Soutient de L'Etat Neuchâtel area, made between 1789-93. Very fine, rare and important silver center seconds early Revolutionary watch with fly-back retrograde date and painted on enamel dial. Three-body, engine-turned, reeded band, polished bezels. Notes Revolutionary watches with complications are very rare. The vast majority of them consisted of simple time, which after 1793 changed the display for the decimal system. This watch is from before this period. After the French Revolution a new digital calendar was adopted and the entire time measurement system was changed. Thus, a revolutionary watch with 31-day calendar must date from before the change. During the revolution period watches with gold cases practically did not exist in France, since the use of precious metals went against the egalitarian philosophy of the Revolution..
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-10-11
