663,500 CHF
Country Pleasures. Attributed to Pierre Morand, Geneva, circa 1785, made for the Dutch market. Magnificent and extremely rare 18K rose gold and enamel, double-face, small coach watch of unusual construction, with 4-bell carillon, triple automaton and six auxiliary minute dials. Two-body, "Louis XVI", glazed on both sides, pierced for sound and decorated with polychrome champlevé enamel flowers and wavy lines, engraved with repeated pattern, pronounced hinge. 71 mm, frosted gilt, fixed barrel, cylinder escapement with brass escape wheel, three-arm steel balance with flat balance spring, two-footed gilt small cock, unusual going train allowing for no motion work, Barillet carillon with four concentric bells and 4 adjustable hammers, 2-wing fly governor, the automata driven via cams off the second carillon train wheel.Punched with later French import marks. Diam. 82 mm. Notes Provenance: Bloch-Pimentel Collection, sold at Drouot on May 5, 1961, lot 113. This magnificent watch is rather unconventionally made for the time. There is no motion train; instead there are two additional wheels in the going train, one driving the hours, the other the minutes. It is executed on a principle similar to that of precision regulator clocks.These superbly made coach watches with musical automata are very rare, in fact only three are known to exist. The other two were sold by Antiquorum on Nov. 13, 1999, lot 64 and on April 2, 2000, lot 378. Of these two watches, one played a Chinese tun
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-10-11
