10,625 CHF
MONTANDON QUARTER-REPEATER GRANDE ET PETITE SONNERIE CLOCKWATCH PINK GOLD Chs. Ad. Montandon, Locle, para Francisco Varquez, Vera Cruz, Mexico", No. 21793. Made for the Hispanic market, circa 1880. Very fine, quarter-repeating, grande et petite sonnerie, clockwatch 18K pink gold, hunting-cased, keyless pocket watch. Four-body, "bassine et filets" with floral, foliate and geometric chased decoration with blank cartouche on front cover. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved dedication. Enamel with painted radial Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds, outer minute divisions. Blued steel pear hands. 18''', rhodium plated, 31 jewels, two-train, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Notes Case, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 46 mm. THICKNESS 17 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2016-05-15
