13,800 CHF
Verneuil Aine a Paris, No. 510, circa 1820. Very fine and rare 18K gold, quarter repeating Grande and Petite Sonnerie clock watch. Three body, "Empire " polished with reeded band, by joly (Master mark) No. 1816. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with Breguet numerals. Blued-steel Breguet hands. Gilt-brass double trains with going barrels, Breguet overhanging ruby cylinder escapement, plain gold three-arm balance, flat balance spring with regulator. Grande and Petite Sonnetze striking with selection levers on the movement, repeating on gongs with button on the pendant. Signed on the dial and cuvette Diam. 58 mm. Notes The striking train of this watch is fitted with a regulator based on the same principal as the stackfrccd used in place of the fusee on the going train of the early German watches, in order to pull clown the mainspring when fully wound and release it progressively as it goes clown.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1998-10-31
