12,650 CHF
La Marèchale Simon Gounouilhou, Mecanicien à Genève, No. 2764, circa 1820. Very fine and rare, 18K gold, quarter-repeating musical watch with cylinder musical movement, music playing on the hour or at will. Three-body, Empire, engine turned with ribbed band. Hinged gilt brass cuvette. Gold, enamel Breguet chapter ring, outer minute track, engine-turned center. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. 51 mm, gilt brass full plate two-train movement with standing barels, cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, small gilt brass single arm cock, repeating on gongs by depressing the pendant. Musical train with pinned cylinder and 36 steel teeth, the teeth under gilt brass cover engraved with the title "La Maréchale" and score for the music.Signed on the gilt brass dust rim, numbered on the pillar plate and case, case punched with casemaker’s marks. Diam. 58 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
