78,200 CHF
“Grand and Petite Sonnerie” Hry. Grandjean & Co, (Le Locle), Swiss, No. 37540. Engraved by Ferrero, Geneva. Made for C. Marcks & Co. Ltd, Bombay and Poona, circa 1890. Extremely fine and rare, grande and petite sonnerie, minute repeating, heavy 18K gold hunting-cased two-train clockwatch. Four-body, "bassine et filets", fully engraved with stylized foliage and geometric patterns. Gold hinged cuvette partially engraved with flowers and foliage over a glazed gold bezel for viewing the movement. Frosted and engraved silver with radial Roman numerals on raised cartouches, dot minute markers, subsidiary seconds, finely chased and engraved applied gold foliate border and center. Blued steel "spade" hands. Notes The case is made by J. Ferrero, a casemaker specializing in richly decorated cases for the Indian market. Marcks & Co. Bombay & Poona was the most prestigious luxury goods store in India. Its major supplier was Henri Grandjean, who made very high quality watches. The company specialized in "Grande Complication" watches, watches with perpetual calendar, independent seconds with diablotine, chronographs, repeaters, clockwatches, and tourbillons. Their watch cases were usually highly decorated, often with enamels, and precious and semi-precious stones. Henry Grandjean Along with Constant Girard (later Girard-Perregaux), Henry Grandjean early entered the South American Market. Along with Ulysse Nardin, he was one of the first to establish a marine chronometer manufac
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-11-13
