346,500 CHF
“God Save The King – Watch with 16 Complications” Attributed to Audemars Frères, Genève (AFG), No. 12307. Made for the English market, circa 1900. Extremely fine and important, possibly unique, large, astronomic, 18K gold, musical, grande and petite sonnerie three-train clockwatch with perpetual calendar, triple winding, carillon trip minute-repeat with three hammers on three gongs, cylinder musical movement playing “God Save The King” on the hour or at will with four hammers on four gongs, moon phases and lunar calendar. Four-body, massive, “bassine”, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the months and four-year cycle, date, days of the week, seconds and moon phase aperture with lunar calendar. Blued steel “spade” hands. 47 mm., 21’’’, frosted gilt, 33 jewels, twin barrel differential winding for the going and striking trains, button in the band to engage winding for the musical train, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, striking the hours and quarters or quarters only and repeating with three hammers on three gongs activated by a trip-slide on the band, selection and silence levers protruding from the bezel. Musical movement: standing barrel, pinned brass cylinder mounted vertically within the movement, the pins acting against a nest of levers controlling the four hammers and playing on four gongs, playing on the h
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
