63,250 CHF
Concert in a ParkHenri Capt a Genève, No. 667, circa 1815.Very fine and rare 18K gold quarter-repeating musical watch with automaton scene. Three-body, "Empire", back with engraved coat-of-arms and the motto "and Resolute Firm", reeded band, spring-loaded gilt cuvette. Small, eccentric, gold with champlevé Breguet numerals, outer minute track, center engraved with a sunflower. Blued steel Breguet hands. The dial plate with a fine enamel painted landscape with a castle on the left, the foreground applied with an automaton scene of chased varicolored gold, with two seated musicians in antique dress, the man playing the guitar anthe lady a harp. Driven by the musical train, the two move their arms. Notes A similar movement is described and illustrated in the Rees' Cyclopaedia, page 280, plate XLIII.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-11-16
