41,400 HKD
Benjamin Huguenin a Besancon, circa 1800. Very fine and unusual silver moon phase astronomical watch with a so-called perpetual calendar. Double body, Directoire, polished. White enamel eccentric with gilt Roman numerals on a dark blue chapter ring, decorated with two painted cherubs and garlands of flowers, blue small subsidiary chapter rings for seconds, dates, days of the moon with symbols of their planets, half moon sectors for the months with their number of days. Blued steel hands. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fixed barrel with revolving arbor, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece. Signed on the dial and back plate. Diam. 59 mm. Notes Although this watch shows the months of the year with their relative number of days, like watches with perpetual calendar, the date has to be adjusted every month, according to the number of days in the month, and the hand on the month sector must be reset manually once a year.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1999-06-07
