6,900 CHF
Les Frères Rey, Geneva, No. 340, circa 1720. Fine silver pair cased watch with alarm and date. Outer oignon, with a pierced formai decoration. Inner bassine with split bezel and lose-ring pendant, finely pierced and engraved with a mask and inhabited foliage. Silver champleve with Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute ring, inner revolving alarm setting disc and date aperture. Blued steel hand and pointer. Hinged gilt brass full plate with Egyptian pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement with plain polished steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass English style cock with polished steel endpiece. Alarm on a bel) with gilt brass engraved fixed barrel. Signed on the back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 59 mm. Notes Frères Rey, from a very eminent family of watchmakers from Geneva. They were appointed as Masters and working together as soon as 1710. This watch certainly is the earliest one known up to now days, bearing their signature.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1994-04-10