23,000 CHF
Peter Nordsteen à Moscou, No. 881, circa 1785.Very fine silver, quarter repeating coach watch with alarm and date. Two-body, entirely finely engraved, the back with four cartouches with masks and foliage, the centre with geometrically engraved rotating disc which covers the winding apertures, edges and bezels pierced and engraved in a geometrical pattern. 75 mm o, hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, continental cockpierced and engraved in a delicate symmetrical pattern, ruby endstone, pull repeater striking on bell, alarm withfixed barrel.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 120 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, page 254-255. Notes Nordsteen Peteris recorded as having worked in St Petersburg in 1760, in Stockholm in 1764 and in Moscow around 1785.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31
