Sold for:
12,650 CHF

Chapon & Ligier à Genève, circa 1820. Fine and unusual 18K gold, three-train, petite et grande sonnerie clockwatch with quarter-repeating, four square gongs and special escapement. Four-body, "bassine", polished with reeded band, hinged gilt cuvette. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute ring, blued-steel Breguet hands. 52 mm (23’’’), frosted gilt, full-plate, "virgule" escapement, gold three-arm balance, lever for change from petite to grande sonnerie at 3 o’clock, "striking/silence" lever at 4 o’clock, independent repeater train striking on its own two square gongs, activated by depressing the pendant. Signed on cuvette, case stamped "P3G" in oval.Diam. 58.5 mm. Notes Provenance: Prince Louis de Montholon (1785 – 1869) A rare example of a four-gong clockwatch with virgule escapement.


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Auctioneer:
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Date:
2004-04-24

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