99,750 CHF
ATTRIBUTED TO PIGUET & MEYLAN MUSICAL SUMMER BOUQUET ENAMEL AND GOLD Attributed to Piguet & Meylan, Genève, signed by Charman, London, No. 9076. Made for the Chinese market, circa 1820. Very fine and rare, large, musical, 18K gold, painted on enamel and pearl-set pocket watch playing music on the hour or at will. Accompanied by a the original Charman fitted box and a winding key. Four-body, "Empire", reeded band, split pearl-set bezels, pendant and bow, the back painted on enamel with a bouquet of summer flowers against an opalescent enamel ground, the scalloped border decorated in pale blue and white champlevé enamel. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Gold "spade" hands. 52 mm. gilt, going barrels for the going and musical trains, cylinder escapement, brass three-arm balance, the balance and the steel escape wheel jeweled, flat balance spring, index regulator, sur plateau musical movement with 24 tuned steel teeth playing on both sides of the pinned disc. Notes Dial, cuvette and movement signed by Charman, dial plate punch numbered. DIAM. 61.5 mm. This large and heavy, beautifully decorated musical watch has a very high quality movement almost certainly made by PIGUET & MEYLAN, the main exponents of this particular type of sur-plateau movement. Despite being entirely of Swiss craftsmanship, this watch is very much made in the English style in particular the single-footed balance cock. It was ordere
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2016-05-15
