57,600 CHF
White Gold Primo 4 – Juke Box - No. 8 Mermod Freres, Sainte-Croix, “Primo 4”, No. 8, Ref. 56K-PO.101. Made in a limited edition of 50 pieces in white gold in 2007. Extremely fine and innovative, large, tonneau-shaped, skeletonized, four-tune on four discs musical box, self-winding, 18K white gold wristwatch with Mermod Freres buckle. Accompanied by the original Mermod Freres polished wooden musical box playing Waltz No. 2 by Shostakovitch, and booklet. Three-body, massive, tonneau-shaped, polished and brushed, hooded lugs, double back with vent holes for the sound and 12 screws, button at 10 for hand-setting, at 8 for music activation, bidirectional winding crown for winding musical and going trains, unique design acoustic sapphire crystal. Annular white with five-line musical stave and rest hour indexes, Arabic quarter-hour numerals, red arrow at 6 o’clock to indicate the playing disc, aperture displaying the four rotating musical discs and skeletonized blued steel disc supports. Hand-polished white gold skeleton hands. Hand-finished special calibre MF-101, rhodium plated with oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, high frequency monometallic balance beating at 28,800 vibrations per hour, self-compensating flat balance spring, 22K gold rotor with blued Mermod bird logo. Musical movement: Playing four tunes on four separate musical pinned discs, fixed on a blued steel disc support turning on its axis to move the requested disc to the playin
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-11-14
