80,500 CHF
La Madonna di LoretoUnsigned, Geneva, No. 7673, circa 1820.Very fine and rare 18 ct. gold and enamel two-train hour-striking musical automaton watch with quarter repeating and centre seconds, made for the Oriental market. White enamel, Roman chapters, outer minute and fifth-seconds divisions with fifteen-minute Arabic numerals. Blued-steel Breguet hands. 45.2 mm o, gilt bridge calibre, fixed barrel, cylinder escapement, three-arm gold balance, flat balance spring, the music a revolving disc with pins on both sides, playing on 22 tuned teeth arranged in a fan shape, playing on the hour and on demand, repeating on two gongs by depressing the pendant, the automaton driven from a ratchet wheel set on the musicarrel arbor.Dim. 52 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 320-321.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31
