69,000 CHF
Barking Dog with CatJ. D. Piguet & P. Meylan, Geneva, No. 282, made for the Chinese market, circa 1820.Very rare and very small 18K gold pearl-set quarter-repeating "barking dog" automaton watch. Notes The watch repeats the hours and quarters with the sound of a barking dog, the rarest form of repeating. There are only about 20 of them known, of which the majority are after Jean-Baptiste Oudry's painting "Dog Attacked by a Swan". The present watch with the more realistic scene of a dog barking at a cat, is extremely rare. Additionally, the majority of barking dog watches are based on 44 or 45 mm. movements (20'''), while this one is only 14'''. We know of only one other watch like this one, wich may in fact be its pendant.For a biography of Piguet & Meylan, see lot 574.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-04-12
