$10,030
“Coach Watch” Probably Friedburg (German). Made circa 1770. Fine, brass, coach watch with quarter-repeating and alarm and leather fitted traveling case. Two-body, “bassine”, polished. Leather covered fitted outer traveling case. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic 5-minute numerals, brass dial plate with engraved decoration. Pierced and engraved gilt brass “Louis XV” hands, steel serpentine alarm hand. Gilt brass, full plate, ring-turned pillars, fusée and chain for the going train, standing barrel for the alarm, lateral lever escapement mounted on a platform on the back plate, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel flat balance spring, pierced and engraved English-type winged balance cock. Diam. 13 cm., case ca. 14 x 14 cm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-12-07
