117,750 CHF
HAHN - LARGE PINK GOLD ASTRONOMICAL WATCH - HALF SECOND BEATING BALANCE Hahn à Echterdingen. Made circa 1800. Extremely fine, very rare and complicated, large, astronomic, 18K pink gold pocket watch with dead center-seconds, date, days of the week and month calendar, sunrise and sunset indication, moon's age, zodiac, altitude of the pole indications, exposed mainspring, large half-second beating balance and manual alarm. Two-body, "Directoire", polished bezel and band, the back engraved with a scene of Chronos paying tribute to the passing of time, an upturned cornucopia of flowers a willow tree and urn on a column in the background, crown for the alarm set within the pendant. White enamel with small eccentric hour dial, radial Arabic numerals, eccentric minute dial with Arabic numerals, further subsiairy dials for the date, days of the week and moon's age, outer rings for the months and their respective number of days and zodiac symbols, altitude of the pole, outermost seconds with Arabic numerals. Blued steel hands and special 'trident' hand with three tips to show the months, their number of days and zodiac simultaneously. 53 mm., gilt brass full plate, engraved border, cylindrical pillars, going barrel with exposed mainspring enclosed within an aperture within the backplate, cylinder escapement, half-second beating seven-arm brass balance, flat balance spring, faceted red endstone, the mainspring and balance secured by a pierced circular plate above the backplat
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-11-10
